

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.
Movie Details
Languages
English
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Studio
BBC Film
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Key Crew

Ralph Fiennes
Director

David Hare
Writer

Wayne Marc Godfrey
Executive Producer

Liam Neeson
Executive Producer

Anne Sheehan
Executive Producer

Lisa Wolofsky
Executive Producer

Ralph Fiennes
Producer

Andrew Levitas
Producer
Cast

Oleg Ivenko
Rudolf Nureyev

Adèle Exarchopoulos
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 Grigoriyev
Young Rudolf Nureyev

Anastasiya Meskova
Alla Osipenko

Dmitrii Karanevskii
Leonid

Nadezhda Markina
Bureaucrat

Kseniya Ryabinkina
Anna Udaltsova

Zach Avery
Michael Jones

Yves Heck
Jagaud-Lachaume

Calypso Valois
Claire Motte

Mar Sodupe
Helena Romero

Juliette Armanet
la chanteuse du club de jazz