Ralph Fiennes is back in the director's chair (and also co-starring) for his latest, The White Crow. The film, tracing a pivotal point in the life and career of legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, has a trailer online.
David Hare wrote the script for the film, which finds actor and dancer Oleg Ivenko starring as Nureyev in a story that adapts Julie Kavanagh's book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life. Rather than tackle his entire existence, though, The White Crow focuses on the iconic dancer's defection from the Soviet Union in 1961 and the KGB's attempts to stop him.
Fiennes is also playing Nureyev's mentor Pushkin, and has Oleg Ivenko, Sergei Polunin, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Chulpan Khamatova, Raphaël Personnaz, Calypso Valois, Oliver Rabourdin and Louis Hofmann in the ensemble, and the film will kick off with preview screenings featuring a Q&A with Fiennes and others, to be broadcast live from the Curzon Mayfair on 12 March, with tickets available from the film's site. It'll arrive on general release on 22 March.
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