The White Crow

THE WHITE CROW captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev (world-class ballet performer Oleg Ivenko), 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. The film offers a thrilling insight into Nureyev’s dangerous defection, masterminded by the dancer’s great friend, a 21-year-old Parisian, Clara Saint (Adèle Exarchopoulos). In an astonishing finale at Le Bourget airport in Paris, THE WHITE CROW leaps to freedom and defines his destiny.

Based on the book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life, this film is directed by Ralph Fiennes, who also plays famous Russian ballet coach Alexander Pushkin, and comes from Academy Award-nominated screenwriter David Hare (THE HOURS; THE READER).