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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

PG 117 minutes EN Drama , Romance
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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 fell 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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Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
Aden Young
Dilworth

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Art Direction
Director of Photography
Set Decoration
Editor
Makeup & Hair
Hairstylist
Makeup Artist
Production companies: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Production countries: Australia, China
Budget: $25,000,000
Revenue: $23,900,000

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