Synopsis
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.
Cast

Oleg Ivenko
Rudolf Nureyev

Adèle Exarchopoulos
Clara Saint

Chulpan Khamatova
Xenia Jurgenson

Ralph Fiennes
Alexander Pushkin

Alexey Morozov
Strizhevsky

Raphaël Personnaz
Pierre Lacotte

Olivier Rabourdin
Alexinsky

Ravshana Kurkova
Farida Nureyeva

Louis Hofmann
Teja Kremke

Sergei Polunin
Yuri Soloviev
Maksimilian Grigoriyev
Young Rudolf Nureyev

Anastasiya Meskova
Alla Osipenko

Dmitrii Karanevskii
Leonid

Nadezhda Markina
Bureaucrat

Kseniya Ryabinkina
Anna Udaltsova

Zach Avery
Michael Jones

Yves Heck
Jagaud-Lachaume

Calypso Valois
Claire Motte
Mar Sodupe
Helena Romero

Juliette Armanet
la chanteuse du club de jazz

Nebojša Dugalić
Konstantin Sergeyev

Igor Filipović
Trofimkin

Jovo Maksić
Romanov

Angelina Debor
Ljuba Romankov
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