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To dance you must be free
The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.Read moreLess
The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
The story
The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
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Oleg IvenkoRudolf Nureyev
Adèle ExarchopoulosClara Saint
Chulpan KhamatovaXenia Jurgenson
Ralph FiennesAlexander Pushkin
Alexey MorozovStrizhevsky
Raphaël PersonnazPierre Lacotte
Olivier RabourdinAlexinsky
Ravshana KurkovaFarida Nureyeva
Louis HofmannTeja Kremke
Sergei PoluninYuri Soloviev
Anastasiya MeskovaAlla OsipenkoExplore the crew
- Director
- Ralph Fiennes
- Writer
- David Hare
- Original Music Composer
- Ilan Eshkeri
- Director of Photography
- Mike Eley
- Editor
- Barney Pilling
- Producer
- Carolyn Marks Blackwood
- Producer
- Ralph Fiennes
- Producer
- François Ivernel
- Producer
- Andrew Levitas
- Producer
- Gabrielle Tana