Antelope Films Limited/Orfeo Films Limited/Reiner Moritz Associates Limited, 1991, color, 1:30:00.
Available as:
VHS (NTSC) (Public Media Home Vision: NUR 010)
Laserdisc (Pioneer Artists: PA-91-395)Contents
| Time | Visual |
| 0:00 | Footage of Nureyev dancing |
| 1:20 | "Nureyev", seascape, voice over |
| 2:29 | "Sleeping Beauty (1977)" |
| 3:35 | Film footage of rural Russia |
| 4:10 | Interview with Nureyev |
| 4:50 | Scenes of Russia |
| 5:55 | Photos of Nureyev family |
| 6:20 | Interview with Nureyev, scenes of Russian village |
| 8:30 | Interior of theater |
| 9:15 | Photos, interview, folk dancing |
| 10:30 | Interview with "Razida Evegrafova, Sister" |
| 10:50 | Nureyev, countryside |
| 12:00 | Elementary school |
| 12:30 | Interview with "Taisiam Khalturina, School teacher" |
| 14:00 | Folk dancing |
| 15:15 | Photos, interview with "Anna Udeltsova, Dance teacher" |
| 17:20 | Nureyev, photos |
| 18:20 | Scenes of Leningrad, dance class at the Kirov School |
| 20:00 | Nureyev, photos |
| 21:50 | "Kirov School (1957), Amateur film" |
| 22:15 | Nureyev, photos |
| 23:23 | Interview with "Natalia Dudinskaya, First partner" |
| 24:22 | "La Bayadere, Kirov Ballet" |
| 25:20 | Nureyev |
| 27:00 | "Paquita, Kirov Ballet" |
| 27:57 | Photos, film fragment "Le Corsaire (1958)" |
| 29:00 | Natalia Dudinskaya, photos |
| 30:00 | Nureyev |
| 30:28 | Interview with "Roland Petit, Dancer and choreographer, ex-Director Paris Opera Ballet" |
| 31:00 | Scenes of Paris |
| 31:45 | Natalia Dudinskaya, interview with "Maude Lloyd" |
| 33:15 | Airport in Paris, Nureyev |
| 35:50 | Footage of his defection (1961), interview with sister, teacher |
| 36:50 | Nureyev dancing |
| 38:25 | Nureyev |
| 38:42 | Footage of mentor, "Eric Bruhn" |
| 39:30 | Interview with "Dame Margot Fonteyn", photos |
| 41:00 | Interview with Nureyev from 1960s, footage of him dancing, "Casse Noisette (1961)" |
| 42:10 | Interview with "Dame Ninette de Valois, Founder of the Royal Ballet" |
| 43:00 | Footage of "Giselle (1963)" |
| 46:45 | Interview with "David Wall, Director, Royal Academy of Dancing" |
| 47:00 | Footage of Nureyev teaching dance class |
| 47:45 | Nureyev dancing "Swan Lake (1966)" |
| 48:45 | Interview with Ninette de Valois |
| 49:30 | Interview with David Wall |
| 50:20 | Interview with Margot Fonteyn, Nureyev, photos |
| 52:30 | Footage of "Marguerite and Armand (1977)" |
| 57:00 | Photos, interview with Nureyev, footage from the 1960s |
| 59:50 | "Swan Lake (1966)" |
| 1:01:00 | "Casse Noisette (1968) with Merle Park" |
| 1:06:30 | Programs |
| 1:07:00 | Nureyev, photos |
| 1:07:50 | "Apollo (1973)" |
| 1:09:20 | Nureyev |
| 1:11:30 | "Pierrot lunaire (1977)" |
| 1:13:00 | Nureyev |
| 1:13:25 | "Aureole (1978) with Vivi Flindt, Eva Kloborg, Anne Sonnerup" |
| 1:14:20 | Footage of Nureyev as director and dancer of "Don Quixote (1973)" |
| 1:16:15 | "Swine Lake (1977) with Miss Piggy" |
| 1:16:50 | Scenes of Paris ballet, interview with "Sylvie Guillem" |
| 1:18:30 | "Cinderella (1978) with Sylvie Guillem and Charles Jude" |
| 1:19:00 | Interview with Roland Petit |
| 1:21:00 | Footage of Nureyev returning to Russia |
| 1:22:30 | Interview with "Marina Vivien, Curator" of the Kirov museum, photos |
| 1:23:20 | Interviews with Natalia Dudinskaya and Marina Vivien and Anna Udeltsova |
| 1:25:00 | Scenes of Leningrad, interview with Nureyev |
| 1:28:00 | Credits |
| 1:29:45 | End |
Credits
Narrator: Cliff Morgan
Pianist: Philip Gammon
Programme Consultant: Maude Lloyd
Research: Tristram Holland, Madonna Benjamin
Russian Translation: Judy Farnworth
English voices: Lila Kaye, Vivian Pickles
Executive Producer: Mick Csaky
Producer and Director: Patricia Foy