The White Crow
“To dance you must be free”
Overview
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.
Director
Ralph Fiennes
Writer
David Hare
Studio
BBC Film
Vote Count
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Cast
Oleg Ivenko
Rudolf Nureyev
Adèle Exarchopoulo...
Clara Saint
Chulpan Khamatova
Xenia Jurgenson
Ralph Fiennes
Alexander Pushkin
Alexey Morozov
Strizhevsky
Raphaël Personnaz
Pierre Lacotte
Olivier Rabourdin
Alexinsky
Ravshana Kurkova
Farida Nureyeva
Louis Hofmann
Teja Kremke
Sergei Polunin
Yuri Soloviev
Maksimilian Grigor...
Young Rudolf Nureyev
Anastasiya Meskova
Alla Osipenko
Dmitrii Karanevski...
Leonid
Nadezhda Markina
Bureaucrat
Kseniya Ryabinkina
Anna Udaltsova
Zach Avery
Michael Jones
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