TMDb Rating
7.8/10
2 verified votes
Swan Lake (1966)
DramaMusic
107 min
Plot Summary
Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.
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- Plot hook: Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn.
- Genre cues: Drama, Music
- Director clue: Truck Branss
- Lead cast: Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev
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DramaMusicTruck BranssMargot FonteynRudolf Nureyev1966
Director
Truck Branss
Top Cast
Margot FonteynRudolf Nureyev
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