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.
as Rudolf Nureyev
as Clara Saint
as Xenia Jurgenson
as Alexander Pushkin
as Strizhevsky
as Pierre Lacotte
as Alexinsky
as Farida Nureyeva
as Teja Kremke
as Yuri Soloviev
as Young Rudolf Nureyev
as Alla Osipenko
as Leonid
as Bureaucrat
as Anna Udaltsova
as Michael Jones
as Jagaud-Lachaume
as Claire Motte
as Helena Romero
as la chanteuse du club de jazz
as Konstantin Sergeyev
as Trofimkin
as Romanov
as Ljuba Romankov
as journalist
as Journalist Le Figaro
as Shelkov
as Well Wisher
as Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux
as Nicolai Ivanovsky
as interrogator
as Serge Lifar
as Russian waiter
as Kirov Tour Manager
as Osipenko's lover
as journalist
as journalist
as waitress
as Cleaning Woman
as Claire's Mother
as Renaissance Dancer