White Crow, The
Ralph Fiennes's engaging, well-acted, insightful, 127-minute, 2018 biographical film inspired by Julie Kavangh's novel Rudolf Nureyev: The Life that follows talented, head-strong, stubborn, Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev (Oleg Ivenko) from his birth on a train in 1938, growing up with his poor mother (Ravshana Kurkova ) in the USSR, struggling along with other dancers (Sergei Polunin, et al.) to get noticed, his seduction by the wife (Chulpan Khamatova) of his ballet instructor (Ralph Fiennes) while attracted to a pianist (Louis Hoffman), and his eventual defection in Paris in 1961 with the help of a Chilean friend (Adèle Exarchopoulos).
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