WestEnd Films has boarded world sales on Margot & Rudi, a romantic drama from director Anthony Fabian (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) and starring Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive).
The film is described as an “electrifying true story of ballet legends Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.”
The official synopsis reads: “She is 42, the greatest ballerina in the West, and sensing her career is over; he is 23, a rebellious Soviet defector—magnetic, explosive, unstoppable. Together, they ignite the stage and become icons of the Swinging Sixties. Margot is reborn by Rudi’s wild energy, but their bond is complicated by her marriage and his affair with another dancer. To preserve what they have, they will risk everything for one defining ballet—because the only place they can truly be together… is on stage.”
Naomi Watts will star as Margot Fonteyn. Alexandr Trush, Principal Dancer with the Hamburg Ballet, will
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