Rudolf Nureyev: Dance to Freedom (2015)
Dance, espionage and passion come together in this powerful and exciting docudrama that tells the extraordinary story of how Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961 and became a living legend.
Director: Richard Curson Smith
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Artem Ovcharenko as Rudolf Nureyev |
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Svetlana Smirnova as Clara Saint |
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Artem Yakovlev as Yuri Soloviev |
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Yuriy Utkin as Vitaly Strizhevsky |
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Denis Aliev as Pierre Lacotte |
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Vladimir Chernyshov as Konstantin Sergeyev |
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Svetlana Bednenko as Alla Osipenko |
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Nataliya Grigorutsa as Natalia Dudinskaya |
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Alina Murzagalieva as Tamara Zakrzhevskaya |
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Elena Rusina as Claire Motte |
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Konstantin Kordo-Syesoev as Gregor Alexinski |
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Anna Tikhomirova as Ghislaine Thesmar |
| Writing | Richard Curson Smith | Writer |
| Directing | Richard Curson Smith | Director |
| Production | Jan Younghusband | Executive Producer |
| Production | Richard Curson Smith | Producer |
| Production | Franny Moyle | Executive Producer |
| Production | Greg Sanderson | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Diane Solway | Original Story |