Release Date

30 Nov, 2009

Runtime

01:25: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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

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.

Original Title

Margot

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Actors

Anne-Marie Duff

Penelope Wilton

Con O'Neill

Lindsay Duncan

Derek Jacobi

Matthew Hart

Michelle Bonnard

Margot Leicester

Michiel Huisman

Anton Lukovkin

Tatiana Lavrentieva

Ben Stott

Robert Perkins

Crew

Otto Bathurst

Fiona Matthews

Meredith Daneman

Amanda Coe

Damien Timmer

Celia Duval

Jo Kornstein

Martin Jensen

Kate Evenden

Stuart Conran

Catherine Thomas

Forbes Noonan

Virginia Thorn

Jinx Godfrey