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Maos sidste danser

2009

5706710221333

7.3

8,543

Biography | Drama | Music

USA | English | Color | 01:57

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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.

Cast View all

	Chi Cao	Li - as an adult
	Bruce Greenwood	Ben Stevenson
	Penne Hackforth-Jones	Cynthia Dodds
	Christopher Kirby	Mason
	Suzie Steen	Betty Lou
	Madeleine Eastoe	Lori
	Aden Young	Dilworth
	Wen Bin Huang	Li - as a child
	Shu Guang Liang	Jing Tring - 8 yrs
	Ye Wang	Cunfar - 14 yrs
	Neng Neng Zhang	Gong Mei
	Wan Shi Xu	Shen Yu
	Shao Wei Yi	Yang Ping
	Hui Cong Zhan	Teacher Song
	Ji Feng Sun	Headmaster
	Zhi Xue Chai	Official Guan
	Chang Suo Zhang	Official Chan Feng
	Jie Cheng	Official Yu
	Joan Chen	Niang
	Shuangbao Wang	Dia
	Zheng Nong Yang	Cunyuan - 21 yrs
	Yang Li	Cunmao - 19 yrs
	Wen Bin Zhang	Cunsang - 17 yrs
	Ferdinand Hoang	Consul Zhang
	Tian Xia	Door Soldier

Crew View all

Director	Bruce Beresford
Writer	Jan Sardi, Cunxin Li
Producer	Ling Geng, Troy Lum, Sue MacKay, Jane Scott
Musician	Christopher Gordon
Photography	Peter James

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Edition details

Nr Discs	1
Regions	Region 1