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Summary:With interviews with those who knew and worked with him - his friends rivals and colleagues - and rare archival footage, NUREYEV UNZIPPED traces his defection in Paris in 1961, his meteoric rise to swinging sixties celebrity status and his sad prolonged decline.
Description:Was Rudolf Nureyev really a great dancer,or a mediocre technician who beguiled audiences worldwide with the force of his personality and sexual charisma? How did Nureyev sustain the romantic princely persona concealing the lurid reality of his personal life - and why did the media collude in this fantasy?