"The White Crow" leading man Oleg Ivenkov talks Rudolf Nureyev, Ralph Fiennes and more with The Hollywood Reporter. By Alexandra Del Rosario Training as a professional dancer in Ukraine, actor Oleg ...

Oleg Ivenko is a nimble dancer but, unfortunately, a very stiff actor. The degree of difficulty is high for Ivenko's performance as ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev in "The White Crow." The native of ...

All Rudolf Nureyev wanted to do was dance, but in 1961, that wasn't so easy. The Cold War had everybody on edge, including Nureyev's native Russia. One of the most legendary ballet dancers of all time ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The film, based on an explosive chapter in the life of Rudolf Nureyev, has been ...

This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Oleg Ivenko as Rudolf Nureyev in a scene from "The White Crow." (Larry Horicks/Sony Pictures Classics via AP) This image released by Sony Pictures ...

Russia, political asylum, illicit seductions — “The White Crow” feels surprisingly current, though this new film about Soviet ballet star Rudolf Nureyev and his defection to the West centers on events ...

When the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev came to Paris to tour with the Kirov ballet company in 1961, he was “like a wild animal out of a cage,” says Oleg Ivenko, the 26-year-old Ukrainian dancer ...

See “The White Crow.” The star Oleg Ivenko you don’t know. The director Ralph Fiennes you know. The flavor Russia, even Mueller knows. The story Mikhail Baryshnikov knows enough to tell me: “It’s ...

For his third directorial outing, esteemed English actor Ralph Fiennes tackles the story of Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and his high-profile defection from the Soviet Union in 1961. In “The ...

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Ralph Fiennes is a terrific actor; but as a director, he leaves you wanting. His latest example, “The White Crow,” a jumbled mess of a movie chronicling the weeks leading up to the defection of iconic ...