Mao’s Last Dancer by Bruce Beresford
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At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
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Cast
Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao as Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo as Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang as Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen as Niang
Bruce Greenwood as Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan as Charles Foster
Jack Thompson as US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis as Mary McKendry
Madeleine Eastoe as Lori
Steven Heathcote as Bobby Cordner
Aden Young as Dilworth
Wang Shuangbao as
Barbara Bush as Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bruce Greenwood as
Kip Gamblin as David
George Ellis as Houston Ballet Conductor
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