Nureyev - The White Crow
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| German title | Nureyev - The White Crow |
| Original title | The White Crow |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English , Russian , French |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Ralph Fiennes |
| script | David Hare |
| production | Carolyn Marks Blackwood Gabrielle Tana |
| music | Ilan Eshkeri |
| camera | Mike Eley |
| cut | Barney Pilling |
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Nurejew - The White Crow is a biography by Ralph Fiennes about the Russian dancer Rudolf Nurejew , who after a guest performance by the Mariinsky Ballet in Paris escaped the KGB in a dramatic escape and fled to the West. The film is based on the book Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh .
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The film is set during the Cold War in the 1960s, when the Soviets sent the Kirov Ballet with its star Rudolf Nureyev to Paris for a guest performance. The ballet company is accompanied by KGB agents who watch the dancers carefully and try to prevent contacts with fans, journalists and foreigners in general.
The premiere will take place at the Palais Garnier , La Bayadère will be performed , the premiere of this ballet on any French stage. Nureyev dances the role of the soloist, his performance is a huge success and makes him famous in the West at one stroke. Nureyev, however, with his impetuous, unrestrained temperament, succeeds time and again in evading the guards. He gets to know the young Clara, who was engaged to the son of the French Minister of Culture André Malraux , who had just died in an accident , and thus gains access to French society, which the KGB observes with suspicion. Nureyev is sent back to Moscow and Nureyev fears that his career as a dancer will end. With Clara's help and apparently in agreement with the French police, Nureyev managed to jump to the West at Le Bourget airport .
The film does not tell Nureyev's stay in chronological order, rather the narrative thread is interrupted again and again by flashbacks to Nureyev's life, from his birth in a carriage on the Siberian Railway, with scenes from the poor conditions in which he grew up in the 1940s, the encounter and working with his mentor Alexander Pushkin, arriving in Leningrad, up to his first great successes on the stage.
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It is in The White Crow by Coriolanus and The Invisible Woman for third film in which Ralph Fiennes and directed by. The film is based on a book by Julie Kavanagh that was adapted by David Hare . The co-producer was Gabrielle Tana , who had already co-produced Fiennes' two previous films and who played a key role in the conception and production of the documentary Dancer about Sergei Polunin .
The film was shot in Russia, Croatia, Serbia and France from August 2017 to January 2018. In addition to various locations in Paris, filming was carried out in the Croatian National Theater in Rijeka , in studios in Serbia and in places where Nureyev spent his childhood and youth and where his career began in Russia. Some scenes take place in the Mariinsky Theater , a sequence in the Hermitage . Filming locations in Paris were u. a. the Sainte-Chapelle , the Palais de la Cité , the Louvre and the Opéra Garnier .
Mike Eley shot, with the exception of a few sequences - mainly in St. Petersburg in the Hermitage, in which he used a digital camera - in the Super 16 format . He worked with an ARRI 416 -16mm camera as well as Cooke S4 and Angenieux Optimo lenses .
Johan Kobborg, a former solo dancer of the Copenhagen Ballet and the Royal Ballet London , was responsible for the choreography . The costumes were designed by the award-winning French designer Madeline Fontaine .
The film's ballet music - Tchaikovsky , Prokofiev , Kerin and Minkus - was arranged by Ilan Eshkeri and recorded by the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Metropolitan Orchestra under the direction of its conductor Andy Brown. Lisa Batiashvili plays the violin . A soundtrack was released for download on March 22, 2019 by Deutsche Grammophon .
Post production was carried out at the Cinelab in London.
The German version is dubbed German throughout, while the actors in the original version alternately speak English, Russian or French.
publication
The film had its international premiere on August 31, 2018 at the Telluride Film Festival in California. The premiere in London took place on October 18, 2018 as part of the BFI London Film Festival in the Embankment Garden Cinema. At the end of October 2018, the film was shown in the main competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival . It was released in German cinemas on September 26, 2019.
Awards
Ralph Fiennes received the Award for Best Artistic Contribution at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2018 .
criticism
Margarete Frühling writes in the internet journal weltexpresso.de that Ralph Fiennes made a fascinating film about an unadjusted and freedom-loving person in his third directorial work. “'The White Crow' is definitely not a“ normal ”dance film, because neither the drill of the training nor the competition between the dancers is shown in detail. Ralph Fiennes has not only created an exciting but also a political film about the situation in the Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s, because it shows very clearly the influence both the system and its supervisors have on the individual. "
Verena Franke writes in her film review that the Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko convinces as Nureyev not only in the long dance sequences. Fiennes succeeds in giving the biopic an additional political level in addition to the artistic one.
Web links
- Nureyev - The White Crow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Courtney Escoyne: A Viewer's Guide to The White Crow, Ralph Fiennes' Rudolf Nureyev Biopic dancemagazine.com, April 26, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Nureyev - The White Crow . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 192079 / K).
- ↑ From Jlaw to Ralph Fiennes, Here are the Danciests Works for 2018 Dance Magazine, January 29, 2018, accessed October 25, 2018
- ↑ Ralph Fiennes u Rijeci režira film o Rudolfu Nurejevu Radio Rijeka, September 8, 2017, accessed on October 27, 2018
- ↑ David Mead: First sighting of The White Crow, Ralph Fiennes' new movie about Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West , accessed on 25 October 2018th
- ↑ a b DP Mike Eley BSC used Super 16mm to evoke the spirit-of-the-age for The White Crow , accessed October 25, 2018.
- ↑ From JLaw to Ralph Fiennes, Here Are the Danciest Movies in the Works for 2018 Dance Magazine, accessed October 26, 2018
- ↑ Film star Ralph Fiennes in the Belgrade Philharmonic , accessed on November 30, 2018.
- ↑ 'The White Crow' soundtrack details. In: filmmusicreporter.com, March 21, 2019.
- ↑ The White Crow Soundtrack List , accessed September 27, 2019
- ↑ Technical Specifications, IMDb
- ↑ The White Crow, review , accessed October 25, 2018.
- ↑ TIFF 2018
- ↑ Margarete Frühling: Nurejew , The White Crow Weltexpresso.de, September 26, 2019, accessed on September 28, 2019
- ^ Nurejew-Biopic: Tanz in die Freiheit Wiener Zeitung , September 25, 2019, accessed on September 29, 2019