
Feature film — 2018
The White Crow (2018)
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.
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BBC Film / Magnolia Mae Films / HanWay Films / Metalwork Pictures / Work in Progress / Montebello Productions
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Director: Ralph Fiennes
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Cast & crew

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
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