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Mao’s Last Dancer

Release Date:August 20, 2010

Running Time:117 min

Genres:Drama, Romance

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Cast

Amanda Schull Chi Cao Chengwu Guo Wen Bin Huang Joan Chen Bruce Greenwood Kyle MacLachlan Jack Thompson Camilla Vergotis Madeleine Eastoe Steven Heathcote Aden Young

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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