2018·Drama·2h 7m
7.0
★
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.
Directed by Ralph Fiennes
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ballet dancer
biography
ballet
male homosexuality
defection
1950s
gay history
russian ballet
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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
Anastasiya Meskova
Alla Osipenko
Dmitrii Karanevskii
Leonid
Crew
Ralph Fiennes
Director
David Hare
Writer
Ilan Eshkeri
Original Music Composer
Barney Pilling
Editor
Mike Eley
Director of Photography
Mark Cooper
Co-Producer
Wayne Marc Godfrey
Executive Producer
Liam Neeson
Executive Producer
Anne Sheehan
Executive Producer
Lisa Wolofsky
Executive Producer
Ralph Fiennes
Producer
Andrew Levitas
Producer
Popular Reviews
31 reviews
duelyantka
4.0★ · 09/27/25
rudolf is such an interesting person that it would be a crime to make a boring film about him.
rudolf is such an interesting person that it would be a crime to make a boring film about him.
evan
9.7★ · 04/12/24
"-We must all have a goal in life. It's important. If not, what's the point of living?-When did you know yours?-At the opera. I was six years old."
Beautiful movie about the art of ballet. i love with my all heart the movies during The Cold War from the point of view of the Soviet Union it’s always beautifully painful.
Beautiful movie about the art of ballet. i love with my all heart the movies during The Cold War from the point of view of the Soviet Union it’s always beautifully painful.
"-We must all have a goal in life. It's important. If not, what's the point of living?-When did you know yours?-At the opera. I was six years old."
Beautiful movie about the art of ballet. i love with my all heart the movies during The Cold War from the point of view of the Soviet Union it’s always beautifully painful.
Beautiful movie about the art of ballet. i love with my all heart the movies during The Cold War from the point of view of the Soviet Union it’s always beautifully painful.
Freedom
8.0★ · 08/21/22
~You live as long as you dance...~
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev
~You live as long as you dance...~
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev
André Correia
4.0★ · 05/20/20
Technically it’s amazing but when it comes to the plot, the characters... very poor. The ending scene is so damn beautiful but the rest is a big no.
Ralph Fiennes, I’m so sorry!
Ralph Fiennes, I’m so sorry!
Technically it’s amazing but when it comes to the plot, the characters... very poor. The ending scene is so damn beautiful but the rest is a big no.
Ralph Fiennes, I’m so sorry!
Ralph Fiennes, I’m so sorry!
Elliot Taylor
4.0★ · 06/06/19
If you go into this expecting to see a few cool dance sequences, you won't be dissapointed, but if you go in for a proper film you'll be annoyed and bored for a good chunk of the time. The camerawork seemed to want to feel grand but ended up mostly just being fake pretentious and at times sloppy. The acting was never great but also never terrible and the dance sequences were entertaining. Overall though, I was struggling to stay engaged and was annoyed frequently by the various poor technical decisions throughout.
If you go into this expecting to see a few cool dance sequences, you won't be dissapointed, but if you go in for a proper film you'll be annoyed and bored for a good chunk of the time. The camerawork seemed to want to feel grand but ended up mostly just being fake pretentious and at times sloppy. The acting was never great but also never terrible and the dance sequences were entertaining. Overall though, I was struggling to stay engaged and was annoyed frequently by the various poor technical decisions throughout.