Rudolf Nureyev

Now a major film by Ralph Fiennes, The White Crow

'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' - Daily Telegraph

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

Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star, slept with his beloved mentor's 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 Russia's unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were simply astonishing.

'Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man' - Mail on Sunday

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

'Undoubtedly the definitive biography' - Sunday Telegraph.