“At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette...”
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
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Anne-Marie Duff
Margot Fonteyn
Known for
Sex Education
His Dark Materials
Penelope Wilton
B.Q.
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Downton Abbey
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Con O'Neill
Tito
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Chernobyl
The Bible
Lindsay Duncan
Madam
Known for
Sherlock
Rome
Derek Jacobi
Fred Ashton
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Gladiator
Tomb Raider
Matthew Hart
Michael Somes
Known for
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Michelle Bonnard
Sally
Known for
House of the Dragon
The Last Czars
Margot Leicester
Cathy
Known for
1408
The Take
Michiel Huisman
Rudolph Nureyev
Known for
Game of Thrones
The Haunting of Hill House
Anton Lukovkin
Eric
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The Nutcracker
Tatiana Lavrentieva
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Fan
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Also in
Into the Woods
Hamlet
Otto Bathurst Director · Amanda Coe Screenplay Meredith Daneman Author
First release November 30, 2009 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production Mammoth Screen, BBC Film
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BBC
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Mammoth Screen
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BBC Film
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English
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United Kingdom · November 30, 2009
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