Mao's Last Dancer
- Release Date
- October 1, 2009
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Cast
- Bruce Greenwood , Kyle MacLachlan , Joan Chen , Chi Cao , Amanda Schull , Shuangbao Wang
- Runtime
- 117
- Main Genre
- Biography
- Writers
- Jan Sardi , Cunxin Li
- Tagline
- Based on an inspirational and unforgettable true story.
- Website
- http://www.licunxin.com/
Summary
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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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A inspiring story of one man's struggle to find happiness and transcend his family's political situation with another brilliant and almost unrecognizable performance by Bruce Greenwood, one of the most gifted and underappreciated actors working today.