Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness

Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1997

Runtime

0h 51m

Original Title

Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness

Director

Teresa Griffiths

Description

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.