Summary: At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world.

Genre: Drama

Country: UK

Directed By: Otto Bathurst

Written By: Amanda Coe, Meredith Daneman

Starring: Derek Jacobi, Penelope Wilton, Anne-Marie Duff, Lindsay Duncan, Con O'Neill, Michiel Huisman, Michelle Bonnard, Frazer Douglas, Robert Perkins

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