Overview
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.
Production
BBC · Mammoth Screen
Cast & Characters
Anne-Marie Duff
Margot Fonteyn
Penelope Wilton
B.Q.
Con O'Neill
Tito
Lindsay Duncan
Madam
Derek Jacobi
Fred Ashton
Matthew Hart
Michael Somes
Michelle Bonnard
Sally
Margot Leicester
Cathy
Michiel Huisman
Rudolph Nureyev
Anton Lukovkin
Eric
Tatiana Lavrentieva
Elderly Russian Lady
Ben Stott
Good Looking Boy
Directors & Crew
Otto Bathurst
Director
Amanda Coe
Screenplay
Celia Duval
Producer
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