Rudolf Nureyev
Also Known As: Rudolph Nureyev, Rudolf Chametowitsch Nurejew, Rudolf Nurejew, Rudolf Noureev, Рудольф Хәмит улы Нуриев, Рудо́льф Хаме́тович Нуре́ев
Biography: Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Tatar dancer from the former Soviet Union, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women. He defected to the West, despite KGB efforts to stop him. According to KGB archives studied by Peter Watson, Nikita Khrushchev personally signed an order to have Nureyev killed Description above from the Wikipedia article Rudolf Nureyev, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Irkutsk, USSR [now Russia]
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Birthday: March 17, 1938
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 06, 1993
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Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
Overview: From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, three years after learning of his HIV-positive status, he engraved in his literary and photographic work "the places of [his] suffering", "the stations of [his] way of the cross". With his thin body and sunken cheeks, the handsome man with curly hair that he was, the one whose clear gaze radiated from the seaside photos, fought a fierce battle against AIDS. A fight of every moment against the decay of the body, observed and commented with a methodical care in his autobiographical novels, in particular "To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life" (1990) and "The Compassionate Protocol" (1991), and of which he testified on television on the set of "Apostrophes"...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-24
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Be Water
Overview: In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting his struggles between two worlds, this portrait explores questions of identity and representation through the use of rare archival footage, interviews with loved ones and Bruce’s own writings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-25
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Valentino
Overview: The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-07
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Exposed
Overview: Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-22
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The Margot Fonteyn Story
Overview: Biography of Dame Margot Fonteyn.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-11
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Classic ballet by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Prokofiev.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-04
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Petrushka
Overview: Scenes from the ballet Petrushka, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet at the National Opera Theatre.
Genres: Music Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-27
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I Am a Dancer
Overview: Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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The Special London Bridge Special
Overview: In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transported to the bridge's new location where he, befuddled, sings with other celebrities, has adventures and gets kidnapped by “the villain”.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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An Evening With The Royal Ballet
Overview: Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty" with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn
Genres: Documentary Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala
Overview: Acclaimed Ukranian dancer Svetlana Zakharova, who later became one of the youngest ballerinas in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, stars in the title role of the famed Romantic ballet «Giselle,» recorded at the Teatro alla Scalla in Milan in April 2005. The production, with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, and music by Adolphe Adam, also features La Scala star Roberto Bolle as Albrecht.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness
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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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Sleeping Beauty
Overview: Ballet luminary Rudolf Nureyev choreographed this spectacular 1972 National Ballet of Canada production of Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty," and also stars as Prince Florimund opposite Veronica Tennant as Princess Aurora. After Princess Aurora is cursed at birth, she pricks her finger and sleeps for 100 years, until Prince Florimund wakes her with a kiss. Conductor George Crum leads the Orchestra of the National Ballet of Canada.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Swan Lake
Overview: Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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Cinderella
Overview: "A Paris Opera Production filmed in studio with Sylvie Guillem, Charles Jude and Rudolf Nureyev as a movie producer. The ballet is set in Hollywood in the 30′s." - nureyev.org
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-30
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Don Quixote
Overview: A film adaptation of the Ludwig Minkus ballet, completely re-orchestrated and with additional music by John Lanchbery.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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A Life for Ballet
Overview: A documentary on the life of the legendary ballet reconstructionist, Pierre Lacotte and his wife and longtime dance partner Ghislaine Thesmar.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-09
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Political Portraits
Overview: Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
Overview: On March 14, 1971, SINGER PRESENTS BURT BACHARACH was shown on CBS and featured Barbra Streisand joining the composer at the piano for an intimate conversation about life, love and music, as well as several performances - in addition to appearances by Tom Jones, Rudolf Nureyev and Bettie De Jong, too.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-24
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The Nutcracker
Overview: This historic performance from 1968 captures Rudolf Nureyev at the peak of his career. Nureyev's legendary performance makes this the definitive Nutcracker on video. Watch, and enjoy being transported with Clara, the Sugar Plum Fairies and the Nutcracker Prince into a world of fantasy!
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-10
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Nureyev
Overview: An insight into the life of the world's most famous male dancer, Rudolf Nureyev.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-25
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Nureyev Unzipped
Overview: Narrated by Terence Stamp, this TV program documents the life and career of famed ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, through interviews with friends and colleagues and archive footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-13
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That's Dancing!
Overview: A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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The World of Jim Henson
Overview: In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to a five-season run on ABC of The Muppet Show to several theatrically released films, including five Muppet movies, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-23
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Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe
Overview: When he arrives in Saint Petersburg, at the age of 29, Marius Petipa is just an obscure dancer who fled western Europe to escape his debts. He is far from imagining that his engagement in the troupe of the Russian Imperial Ballet, then rather mediocre, will reveal him, forty years later, as one of the greatest choreographers in the history of dance. It is within the Bolshoi Kamenny theaters, then Mariinsky, in a still provincial capital where three productions a year are enough to satisfy an undemanding audience, that this native of Marseille will invent a new art of ballet, over the course of sixty of creations, between 1862 (La fille du pharaon) and 1895 (Le lac des cygnes).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-23
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The Sleeping Beauty
Overview: The National Ballet of Canada interprets Tchaikovsky's timeless three-act opera in this 1972 performance starring Veronica Tennant and Rudolf Nureyev and featuring The Orchestra of the National Ballet of Canada under conductor George Crum. Rudolph Nureyev stars as Prince Florimund opposite Veronica Tennant as Princess Aurora. After Princess Aurora is cursed at birth, she pricks her finger and sleeps for 100 years, until Prince Florimund wakes her with a kiss.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-11
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Swan Lake
Overview: Swan Lake: The Royal Ballet
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-12
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Venezia, carnevale, un amore
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Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Afternoon of a Faun
Overview: At the Nureyev Festival at the London Coliseum in July 1983, Rudolf Nureyev danced the faun as part of a Homage to Diaghilev in a mixed bill of ballets. Then, in the late 1980s, dance notation specialists Ann Hutchinson Guest and Claudia Jeschke reconstructed the ballet from Nijinsky's own notebooks, his dance notation, and the photographs of the dancers that Baron Adolph de Meyer produced shortly after the original performance of the ballet. This reconstructed version is often presented alongside Nijinsky's other works or repertoire from the Ballets Russes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-16
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