Mao’s Last Dancer — Official Trailer

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.

Cast & Crew

Directed by Bruce Beresford

• Bruce Greenwood
  as Ben Stevenson
• Kyle MacLachlan
  as Charles Foster
• Joan Chen
  as Niang
• Chi Cao
  as Li Cunxin - adult
• Amanda Schull
  as Elizabeth Mackey
• Wang Shuangbao
  as Dia