
"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.
Rudolf Nureyev

Clara Saint

Xenia Jurgenson

Alexander Pushkin

Strizhevsky

Pierre Lacotte

Alexinsky

Farida Nureyeva

Teja Kremke

Yuri Soloviev

Young Rudolf Nureyev
Alla Osipenko

Leonid

Bureaucrat

Anna Udaltsova

Michael Jones

Jagaud-Lachaume

Claire Motte

Helena Romero

la chanteuse du club de jazz

Konstantin Sergeyev

Trofimkin

Romanov

Ljuba Romankov

journalist
Journalist Le Figaro

Shelkov

Well Wisher

Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux

Nicolai Ivanovsky

interrogator

Serge Lifar

Russian waiter

Kirov Tour Manager

Osipenko's lover

journalist

journalist

waitress
Cleaning Woman

Claire's Mother

Renaissance Dancer

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Unknown Role
