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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.
Keywords
kgb
ballet dancer
biography
ballet
male homosexuality
defection
1950s
gay history
russian ballet
male ballet dancer
Casts

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

Nebojša Dugalić
Konstantin Sergeyev

Igor Filipović
Trofimkin

Jovo Maksić
Romanov

Angelina Debor
Ljuba Romankov
Jean-Baptist Demarigny
journalist

Arnaud Humbert
Journalist Le Figaro

Radoslav 'Rale' Milenković
Shelkov

Yann Bean
Well Wisher

Pavle Čemerikić
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux

Andrey Urgant
Nicolai Ivanovsky

Vitaliy Kovalenko
interrogator

Jonathan Zaccaï
Serge Lifar

Frano Lasić
Russian waiter

Elena Trepetova
Kirov Tour Manager

Milutin Milošević
Osipenko's lover

Greg De Cuir
journalist

Tamara Krcunović
journalist
Anna Stanic
waitress

Emmanuelle Bougerol
Cleaning Woman

Nicoletta Braschi
Claire's Mother

Antonio Scarpa
Renaissance Dancer

Anastasiya Gribova

Lyubov Makeeva
Crews

Juliette Armanet
Songs

Ralph Fiennes
Director

David Hare
Writer
Julie Kavanagh
Book

Ilan Eshkeri
Original Music Composer
Robert Jones
Executive Producer
Frédérique Arguello
Hairstylist
Corinne Bossu
Key Makeup Artist
Roxane Bruneton
Makeup Artist
Jon Henry Gordon
Hairstylist
Lizzie Lawson
Hair Department Head
Tijana Saletovic
Makeup Artist
Marina Stojanovic
Hairdresser
Claudia Stolze
Wigmaker
Martina Šubić-Dodočić
Makeup Supervisor

Mike Eley
Director of Photography
Meg Clark
Co-Producer

Mark Cooper
Co-Producer
Charles de Rosen
Executive Producer

Wayne Marc Godfrey
Executive Producer

Liam Neeson
Executive Producer
Joe Oppenheimer
Executive Producer

Anne Sheehan
Executive Producer
Marie-Gabrielle Stewart
Executive Producer
Peter Watson
Executive Producer

Lisa Wolofsky
Executive Producer
German Camardella
ADR Editor
Paul Carter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Barnaby Smyth
Foley Artist
Rob Turner
Sound Effects Editor
Nenad Vukadinović
Sound Recordist
Rob Prynne
Sound Effects Editor
Mike Dowson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Barney Pilling
Editor
Elodie Demey
Casting
Anja Dihrberg
Casting
Nenad Pavlović
Casting
Alla Petelina
Casting
Anne Seibel
Production Design
Camille Bougon-Pigneul
Set Decoration
Christelle Maisonneuve
Set Decoration

Madeline Fontaine
Costume Design
Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Producer

Ralph Fiennes
Producer
François Ivernel
Producer

Andrew Levitas
Producer

Gabrielle Tana
Producer
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