Rudolf Nureyev: Dance to Freedom (2015)

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.

Producers	BBC, ZDF/Arte, IWC Films
Original title	Rudolf Nureyev: Dance to Freedom
Directors	Richard Curson Smith
Writers	Diane Solway, Richard Curson Smith

Cast

Artem Ovcharenko

as Rudolf Nureyev

Svetlana Smirnova

as Clara Saint

Artem Yakovlev

as Yuri Soloviev

Yuriy Utkin

as Vitaly Strizhevsky

Denis Aliev

as Pierre Lacotte

Vladimir Chernyshov

as Konstantin Sergeyev

Svetlana Bednenko

as Alla Osipenko

Nataliya Grigorutsa

as Natalia Dudinskaya

Alina Murzagalieva

as Tamara Zakrzhevskaya

Elena Rusina

as Claire Motte

Konstantin Kordo-Syesoev

as Gregor Alexinski

Anna Tikhomirova

as Ghislaine Thesmar