The White Crow
“To dance you must be free”
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.
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Oleg Ivenko
Rudolf Nureyev
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The American
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Clara Saint
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
Beating Hearts
Chulpan Khamatova
Xenia Jurgenson
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Good Bye, Lenin!
Petrov's Flu
Ralph Fiennes
Alexander Pushkin
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Schindler's List
Alexey Morozov
Strizhevsky
Raphaël Personnaz
Pierre Lacotte
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SK1
White Fang
Olivier Rabourdin
Alexinsky
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Taken
Rosemary's Baby
Ravshana Kurkova
Farida Nureyeva
Known for
Chernobyl: Abyss
Kitchenblock
Louis Hofmann
Teja Kremke
Known for
Dark
Land of Mine
Sergei Polunin
Yuri Soloviev
Known for
Murder on the Orient Express
Red Sparrow
Maksimilian Grigoriyev
Young Rudolf Nureyev
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Bender: The Beginning
Anastasiya Meskova
Alla Osipenko
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Trotsky
Sweet Life
Ralph Fiennes Director · David Hare Writer Julie Kavanagh Author
United States release August 31, 2018 · Produced in United Kingdom, Serbia · Languages English, French, Russian
Production
BBC Film
Production
Magnolia Mae Films
Production
HanWay Films
Production
Metalwork Pictures
Production
Work in Progress
Production
Montebello Productions
Production
Sony Pictures Classics
Studio
United Kingdom · Serbia
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · French · Russian
Release dates
United States · August 31, 2018
Limited theatrical · Telluride Film Festival
United Kingdom · March 22, 2019
Theatrical
United States
April 26, 2019 · Limited theatrical
Austria
September 27, 2019 · Digital
Estonia
April 26, 2019 · Theatrical
France
June 19, 2019 · Theatrical
Germany
September 26, 2019 · Theatrical
Greece
June 13, 2019 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
March 23, 2019 · Premiere · Hong Kong International Film Festival
Ireland
March 22, 2019 · Digital
Italy
November 25, 2018 · Premiere · Torino Film Festival
June 27, 2019 · Theatrical
Japan
October 27, 2018 · Premiere · Tokyo International Film Festival
Netherlands
April 11, 2019 · Theatrical
Poland
March 29, 2019 · Digital
Portugal
June 20, 2019
Russia
April 19, 2019 · Premiere · Moscow International Film Festival
April 20, 2019 · Theatrical
Singapore
June 27, 2019 · Theatrical
South Korea
August 10, 2019 · Premiere · Jecheon International Music & Film Festival
Spain
April 26, 2019 · Premiere · BCN Film Fest
May 1, 2019 · Theatrical
Türkiye
June 21, 2019
United Kingdom
October 18, 2018 · Premiere · London Film Festival
January 23, 2021 · TV · BBC Two
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