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.

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

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