Margot

Margot

85 mins | Drama | Nov. 30, 2009

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.

Margot

85 mins | Drama | Nov. 30, 2009

Margot
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers BBC, Mammoth Screen
Original title Margot
Directors Otto Bathurst
Writers Meredith Daneman, Amanda Coe

Cast

Lindsay Duncan

as Madam

Anne-Marie Duff

as Margot Fonteyn

Penelope Wilton

as B.Q.

Con O'Neill

as Tito

Derek Jacobi

as Fred Ashton

Michelle Bonnard

as Sally

Michiel Huisman

as Rudi Nureyev