Rudolf Nureyev

NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW

A gripping account of an extraordinary lifeDaily Telegraph

Born on a train in Stalins Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballets first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage.

Nureyevs achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirovs thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentors wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique; gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and staged Russias unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were simply astonishing.

Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary manMail on Sunday

The definitive study of a man who, in his combination of aesthetic grace and psychological grime, can truly be called a sacred monsterObserver

Undoubtedly the definitive biographySunday Telegraph