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Mao's Last Dancer

2009, drama, love

117 minutes

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...

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Cast

Chi Cao

Chi Cao

Li Cunxin - adult

Chengwu Guo

Li Cunxin - teenage

Wen Bin Huang

Li Cunxin - boy

Joan Chen

Joan Chen

Niang

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood

Ben Stevenson,

Amanda Schull

Elizabeth Mackey

Kyle MacLachlan

Kyle MacLachlan

Charles Foster

Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson

US Federal Judge

Camilla Vergotis

Mary McKendry

Steven Heathcote

Bobby Cordner

Aden Young

Aden Young

Dilworth

Barbara Bush

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kip Gamblin

Kip Gamblin

David

Crew

Art

Elaine Kusmishko

Art direction

Herbert Pinter

Production design

Kerrie Brown

Set decoration

Camera

Costume and make-up

Anna Borghesi

Costume design

Maree McDonald

Hairstylist

Xin Mu

Makeup artist

Directing

Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford

Director

Editing

Mark Warner

Editor

Production

Geng Ling

Co-producer

Troy Lum

Executive producer

Jane Scott

Jane Scott

Producer

Sound

Writing

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