THE WHITE CROW (minority coproduction)

With a magnetic presence, Nureyev was the embodiment of balletic magnificence and by the 1950s emerging as a young star in Leningrad. Ralph Fiennes will intimately capture the raw physicality and brilliance of Nureyev, while David Hare's script delivers a tight and thrilling insight into his dangerous defection to the West in 1961 Paris, choreographed by the dancer's great friend, 21-year-old Parisian Clara Saint.