The White Crow
Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War.
Please note that this film is in Russian, English and French, with Dutch subtitles.
Director Ralph Fiennes (best known as an actor, shifts between the story of Nureyev’s creative breakthrough in St. Petersburg under the tutelage of mentor Alexander Pushkin, evocative glimpses of his impoverished wartime childhood, and the few intoxicating days of achievement and acclaim in Paris that lead to a break with his past. World class ballet performer Oleg Ivenko delicately conveys the pansexual intensity of Nureyev’s dance style and his unpredictable mixture of fragility, generosity and grandiosity.
Ralph Fiennes, UK, France, 2018, 127 min. Russian, English & French spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sergei Polunin.