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Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness
1997 · 51 min
A poignant, intimate portrait of a driven artist in decline, blending archival performance with reflective interviews.
- Directed by
- Teresa Griffiths
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Rudolf Nureyev, Jack Lang, Patricia Ruanne
- Overview
- Despite his HIV-positive diagnosis in the early 1980s, Russian-born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev continued to dance and work as the director of the Paris Opera, as chronicled in this documentary that focuses on Nureyev's final years. Through interviews with colleagues and friends and archival footage of his performances, the film touches on the dancer's early years, his success and his later years as he struggled to continue dancing.
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- Directed by
- Teresa Griffiths
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Rudolf Nureyev, Jack Lang, Patricia Ruanne
