Among his illustrious career in front of the camera – Amon Goeth in Schindler’s List, Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, The Grand Budapest Hotel’s womaniser M. Gustave – recent years have seen Ralph Fiennes flex his filmmaking muscles as a director. First came Shakespeare adaptation Coriolanus, followed by Dickens drama The Invisible Woman – and now for his third feature The White Crow, Fiennes presents a biopic of Rudolf Nureyev, the Soviet ballet dancer who defected to the West in the early 1960s. The film stars Oleg Ivenko in the lead, with Fiennes himself playing ballet instructor Alexander Pushkin.
Empire has a first look at the film’s striking posters – firstly, the one-sheet:
And the quad poster, for those who like things landscape:
Read more about The White Crow in the new issue of Empire – on sale now and available online here – which includes a career-spanning Empire Interview with Fiennes. The White Crow arrives in UK cinemas on 22 March – or book tickets to an early screening with a Ralph Fiennes Q&A on 12 March, read here for more.
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