17 Mar 2006
Volver
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.
Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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.
Top Billed Cast
Chi Cao Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo Li Cunxin - teenage
Joan Chen Niang
Bruce Greenwood Ben Stevenson
Amanda Schull Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan Charles Foster
Jack Thompson US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis Mary McKendry
Madeleine Eastoe Lori
Steven Heathcote Bobby Cordner
Aden Young Dilworth
Wang Shuangbao 
Barbara Bush Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bruce Greenwood 
Kip Gamblin David
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