seen on 13 April 2019
Ralph Fiennes directs this film, written by David Hare and inspired by Julie Kavanagh's biography of Rudolf Nureyev. The film concerns the young Rudolf Nureyev, played by Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko, leading up to his defection from the Soviet Union in Paris in 1961. Fiennes also plays Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin, a ballet master who took an interest in the young student. Pushkin and his wife Xenia (Chulpan Khamatova) had Nureyev stay in their flat; in the film he and Xenia have an affair.
