Ralph Fiennes will direct a film about Nureyev the ”defector”
Ralph Fiennes , a brilliant actor and director for some time now ("Coriolanus", "The Invisible Woman"), decided to make a film about a turning point in the life and career of the legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev , reports Empire . Let's clarify right away that Rafe will not play the main role in this film.The biopic will be written by David Hare, who also worked in the same capacity on The Reader, in which Fiennes played one of the main roles. The source reports that the project is not conceived as a biographical drama in the usual sense, but will focus on one episode from the life of Nureyev. The film will tell about the events of 1961, about that period in the life of the great dancer, when, while on tour in Paris, he asked for political asylum. So Rudolf Khametovich became one of the most famous "defectors" in the history of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, abroad, he quickly acquired the status of a world celebrity and subsequently even received the position of director of the Paris Opera ballet.  The producers of the project, including Fiennes, Hare and Gabriel Tana, have purchased the rights to Julie Kavanagh's book Rudolf Nureyev: A Life and will use it in the script. The Topic of Article: Ralph Fiennes will direct a film about Nureyev the ”defector”. |
