Movie
The White Crow
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2018-08-31
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- BBC Film, Magnolia Mae Films, HanWay Films, Metalwork Pictures, Work in Progress, Montebello Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom, Serbia
- Original language
- EN
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
- Maksimilian Grigoriyev as Young Rudolf Nureyev
- Anastasiya Meskova as Alla Osipenko
Crew
- Ralph Fiennes - Director
- David Hare - Writer
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