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Margot

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette...

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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. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, 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.

Directed byOtto Bathurst

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 25m
Language
EN
Released
November 30, 2009
Studios
BBCMammoth Screen

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Rudolf and Margot - Margot Preview - BBC Four

Rudolf and Margot - Margot Preview - BBC Four

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Anne-Marie Duff

Anne-Marie Duff

Margot Fonteyn

Penelope Wilton

Penelope Wilton

B.Q.

Con O'Neill

Con O'Neill

Tito

Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Madam

Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

Fred Ashton

Matthew Hart

Michael Somes

Michelle Bonnard

Michelle Bonnard

Sally

Margot Leicester

Margot Leicester

Cathy

Michiel Huisman

Michiel Huisman

Rudolph Nureyev

Anton Lukovkin

Eric

Creative team
Directed by
Otto Bathurst
Otto Bathurst
Written by
Amanda Coe
Produced by
Celia Duval

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