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Release Date:
November 30, 2009
Original Title:
Margot
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
BBC
Mammoth Screen
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
GB: PG
Runtime: 85
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.
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Art Direction:
Kate Evenden
Book:
Meredith Daneman
Costume Design:
Amy Roberts
Dialogue Editor:
Virginia Thorn
Director:
Otto Bathurst
Director of Photography:
Florian Hoffmeister
Editor:
Jinx Godfrey
Executive Producer:
Michele Buck
Damien Timmer
Foley Artist:
Andie Derrick
Foley Editor:
Catherine Thomas
Hairstylist:
Fiona Matthews
Makeup Department Head:
Jacqueline Fowler
Producer:
Celia Duval
Prosthetic Makeup Artist:
Stuart Conran
Screenplay:
Amanda Coe
Set Decoration:
Jo Kornstein
Sound Effects Editor:
Catherine Hodgson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Martin Jensen
Forbes Noonan
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