The White Crow

The White Crow

127 mins | Drama | Aug. 31, 2018

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.

The White Crow

127 mins | Drama | Aug. 31, 2018

The White Crow
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers BBC Films, HanWay Films, Magnolia Mae Films, Metalwork Pictures
Original title The White Crow
Directors Ralph Fiennes
Writers Julie Kavanagh, David Hare

Cast

Oleg Ivenko

as Rudolf Nureyev

Adèle Exarchopoulos

as Clara Saint

Chulpan Khamatova

as Xenia Jurgenson

Ralph Fiennes

as Alexander Pushkin

Alexey Morozov

as Strizhevsky

Raphaël Personnaz

as Pierre Lacotte

Olivier Rabourdin

as Alexinsky

Ravshana Kurkova

as Farida Nureyeva

Louis Hofmann

as Teja Kremke

Sergei Polunin

as Yuri Soloviev

Maksimilian Grigoriyev

as Young Rudolf Nureyev

Anastasiya Meskova

as Alla Osipenko

Nadezhda Markina

as Bureaucrat

Kseniya Ryabinkina

as Anna Udaltsova

Zach Avery

as Michael Jones

Yves Heck

as Jagaud-Lachaume

Calypso Valois

as Claire Motte

Mar Sodupe

as Helena Romero

Juliette Armanet

as la chanteuse du club de jazz

Nebojša Dugalić

as Konstantin Sergeyev

Igor Filipović

as Trofimkin

Jovo Maksić

as Romanov

Angelina Debor

as Ljuba Romankov

Jean-Baptist Demarigny

as journalist

Arnaud Humbert

as Journalist Le Figaro

Yann Bean

as Well Wisher

Pavle Čemerikić

as Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux

Andrey Urgant

as Nicolai Ivanovsky

Vitaliy Kovalenko

as interrogator

Jonathan Zaccaï

as Serge Lifar

Frano Lasić

as Russian waiter

Elena Trepetova

as Kirov Tour Manager

Milutin Milošević

as Osipenko's lover

Greg De Cuir

as journalist

Tamara Krcunović

as journalist

Anna Stanic

as waitress

Emmanuelle Bougerol

as Cleaning Woman

Nicoletta Braschi

as Claire's Mother

Antonio Scarpa

as Renaissance Dancer