Mao’s Last Dancer
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.
Top Billed Cast
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Featured Crew
Bruce Beresford
Director
Troy Lum
Executive Producer
Cunxin Li
Author
Sue MacKay
Line Producer
Elaine Kusmishko
Art Direction
Peter James
Director of Photography
Kerrie Brown
Set Decoration
Mark Warner
Editor
Ziggy Golden
Makeup & Hair
Geng Ling
Co-Producer
Maree McDonald
Hairstylist
Xin Mu
Makeup Artist
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