The White Crow — U.S. Trailer

source:   www.sonyclassics.com

added: Sun, Feb 3rd '19

Two-time Oscar-nominated English actor Ralph Fiennes directs and co-stars in this new 1960s-era drama that tells the incredible true story of world-renowned Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who, despite being closely watched by the K.G.B., managed to defect from the Soviet Union while touring through Paris in 1961.

Inspired by the biographical book "Nureyev: The Life" by Julie Kavanagh, "The White Crow" casts real-life ballet dancer Oleg Ivenko in the role of Nureyev, while Fiennes portrays Nureyev's Russian ballet instructor Alexander Pushkin.

The film, which also stars French actress Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Color), French actor Raphael Personnaz (Anna Karenina, The New Girlfriend) and Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin, follows Nureyev as he tours France with his ballet company. Once there, he makes the decision to seek political asylum against heavy opposition from the Russian government.

"The White Crow" is the third directorial effort from Fiennes, following his acclaimed Shakespearean war thriller "Coriolanus" and the period Charles Dickens biopic "The Invisible Woman."

Check out the newly-released U.S. trailer for "The White Crow," which is coming to U.S. theaters later in the year, via Sony Picture Classics.