Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

Film details

Featuring

Bruce Greenwood Kyle MacLachlan Joan Chen
Director

Bruce Beresford
Country

Australia
Year

2009
Genre

Biopic
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

True story about Li Cunxin who, born to a poor family during the cultural revolution in China, emerges from the poverty of his background to become a ballet dancer of international repute and then defects to the West.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Ben Stevenson
    
    Bruce Greenwood
  - Charles Foster
    
    Kyle MacLachlan
  - Niang, Cunxin`s mother
    
    Joan Chen
  - Cunxin Li
    
    Cao Chi
  - Elizabeth
    
    Amanda Schull
  - Dia, Cunxin`s father
    
    Wang Shuangbao
  - Cunxin Li as a teenager
    
    Guo Chengwu
  - Cunxin Li at age 11
    
    Huang Wenbin
  - Mary
    
    Camilla Vergotis
  - Chan
    
    Zhang Su
  - cast member
    
    Aden Young
  - cast member
    
    Madeleine Eastoe
  - cast member
    
    Ferdinand Hoang
  - cast member
    
    Penne Hackforth-Jones
  - cast member
    
    Jack Thompson
Credits
- Direction:
  - Director
    
    Bruce Beresford
  - Assistant Director
    
    Mark Egerton
  Subject:
  - [Subject of Film]
    
    Cunxin Li
  Production:
  - Production Company
    
    Great Scott Productions
  - [International Sales]
    
    Celluloïd Dreams
  - Executive Producer
    
    Troy Lum
  - Producer
    
    Jane Scott
  - Co-producer
    
    Geng Ling
  Casting:
  - Casting
    
    Sharon Howard-Field
  - Casting
    
    Nikki Barrett
  - Casting
    
    Li Haibin
  Writing:
  - Screenplay
    
    Jan Sardi
  - Based on the autobiography by
    
    Cunxin Li
  Photography:
  - Director of Photography
    
    Peter James
  Editing:
  - Editor
    
    Mark Warner
  Design:
  - Production Designer
    
    Herbert Pinter
  - Art Director
    
    Elaine Kusmishko
  - Art Director
    
    Bernardo Trujillo
  Costumes:
  - Costume Designer
    
    Anna Borghesi
  Music:
  - Music
    
    Christopher Gordon
  Choreography:
  - Choreography
    
    Graeme Murphy
  Sound:
  - Sound
    
    David Lee