Rudolf Nureyev
- Director: Patricia Foy
- Producer: Mick Csaky; Patricia Foy
CGiii Comment
Patricia Foy's absorbing Rudolf Nureyev--A Documentary, a portrait of surely the most committed and versatile dancer in the history of ballet, was made in 1991, two years before his death. It is as much the study of a life apart as a profile of a tireless jet-setting artist. His career took him from poverty-stricken provincial childhood to life as a student at the Kirov, through defection to the West in 1961 and on to the great classical roles on the world's most famous stages, a sublime professional partnership with Margot Fonteyn and a fascinating evolution as a supreme exponent of modern dance. And through it all, Foy's film suggests that for all Nureyev's desire to be a member of the corps, he always felt isolated. The dancer himself concludes by saying he never felt a part of society.
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Cast & Characters
Ninette de Valois as Herself;
Natalya Dudinskaya as Herself;
Razida Evegrafova as Herself;
Margot Fonteyn as Herself;
Philip Gammon as Pianist;
Sylvie Guillem as Herself;
Taisiam Khalturina as Herself;
Maude Lloyd as Herself;
Cliff Morgan as Narrator;
Rudolf Nureyev as Himself;
Merle Park as Herself;
Roland Petit as Himself;
Vivian Pickles as English Voice;
Anna Undeltsova as Herself;
Marina Vivien as Herself