Rudolf Nureyev: Dance to Freedom

Dec 19, 2015

1h 29m

★ 7.9

Overview

Dance, espionage and passion come together in this powerful and exciting docudrama that tells the extraordinary story of how Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961 and became a living legend.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

BBC

IWC Films

ZDF/Arte

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Cast

Rudolf Nureyev

Artem Ovcharenko

Clara Saint

Svetlana Smirnova

Yuri Soloviev

Artem Yakovlev

Vitaly Strizhevsky

Yuriy Utkin

Pierre Lacotte

Denis Aliev

Konstantin Sergeyev

Vladimir Chernyshov

Alla Osipenko

Svetlana Bednenko

Natalia Dudinskaya

Nataliya Grigorutsa

Tamara Zakrzhevskaya

Alina Murzagalieva

Claire Motte

Elena Rusina

Gregor Alexinski

Konstantin Kordo-Syesoev

Ghislaine Thesmar

Anna Tikhomirova

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