Summary At the age of forty, Dame Margot Fonteyn (Anne-Marie Duff) is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Dame Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev (Michiel Huisman), a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Ashton (Sir Derek Jacobi) creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto "Tito" Arias (Con O'Neill), a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life, Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment, though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet. View more details
Directed : Otto Bathurst
Written : Amanda Coe Meredith Daneman
Stars : Con O'Neill Penelope Wilton Lindsay Duncan Anne-Marie Duff
Genres : Drama Biography
Release date : Nov 29, 2009
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, Muswell Hill, London, England, UK
Production companies : Mammoth Screen
Summary At the age of forty, Dame Margot Fonteyn (Anne-Marie Duff) is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Dame Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev (Michiel Huisman), a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Ashton (Sir Derek Jacobi) creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto "Tito" Arias (Con O'Neill), a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life, Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment, though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet. View more details
Genres : Drama Biography
Release date : Nov 29, 2009
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, Muswell Hill, London, England, UK
Production companies : Mammoth Screen
