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Rudolf Nureyev: Dance to Freedom

Dec 19, 2015 · 1h 29m
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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.

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CAST

Artem Ovcharenko
Rudolf Nureyev
Svetlana Smirnova
Clara Saint
Artem Yakovlev
Yuri Soloviev
Yuriy Utkin
Vitaly Strizhevsky
Denis Aliev
Pierre Lacotte
Vladimir Chernyshov
Konstantin Sergeyev
Svetlana Bednenko
Alla Osipenko
Nataliya Grigorutsa
Natalia Dudinskaya
Directed by Richard Curson Smith

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
BBC, IWC Films, ZDF/Arte, Absinthe Film Entertainment
Country
GB, US

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