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The White Crow
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.
2018 · Directed by Ralph Fiennes · 127 min · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
To dance you must be free
Crew
- Written by: David Hare
- Cinematography: Mike Eley
- Edited by: Barney Pilling
- Music: Ilan Eshkeri
- Production design: Anne Seibel
- Produced by: Ralph Fiennes, Gabrielle Tana, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, François Ivernel
Cast
- Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev
- Adèle Exarchopoulos as Clara Saint
- Chulpan Khamatova as Xenia Jurgenson
- Ralph Fiennes as Alexander Pushkin
- Alexey Morozov as Strizhevsky
- Raphaël Personnaz as Pierre Lacotte
- Olivier Rabourdin as Alexinsky
- Ravshana Kurkova as Farida Nureyeva
- Louis Hofmann as Teja Kremke
- Sergei Polunin as Yuri Soloviev
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, Serbia
- Language: Russian, French, English
- Studios: BBC Film, Magnolia Mae Films, HanWay Films, Metalwork Pictures
- Themes: kgb, ballet dancer, biography, ballet, male homosexuality, defection, 1950s, gay history, russian ballet
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