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Mao's Last Dancer

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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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Chi Cao
Li - as an adult
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster

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Mao's Last Dancer: Making Of Featurette
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Trailers & Videos See All

Mao's Last Dancer
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Mao's Last Dancer: Disco
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Mao's Last Dancer: Muffin
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Mao's Last Dancer: Ben And Li
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Mao's Last Dancer: Don Quixote
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Mao's Last Dancer: Don't Let The Turkeys
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Awards

  • 2009 - Audience Award - Best Foreign Feature Film - winner
  • 2009 - ASSG Award - Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Recording - winner
  • 2009 - AFI Award - Best Film - nominated
  • 2009 - AFI Award - Best Direction - nominated

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