Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
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.
Drama, Romance
Cast
- Bruce Greenwood — Ben Stevenson
- Kyle MacLachlan — Charles Foster
- Joan Chen — Niang
- Chi Cao — Li Cunxin - adult
- Amanda Schull — Elizabeth Mackey
- Wang Shuangbao — Dia
- Aden Young — Dilworth
- Jack Thompson — Judge Woodrow Seals
- Penne Hackforth-Jones — Cynthia Dodds
- Chengwu Guo — Li Cunxin - teenage
- Wen Bin Huang — Li Cunxin - boy
- Madeleine Eastoe — Lori
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