Margot 14 years old

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette...

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.

Credits

Margot Cast

Name Character
Michiel Huisman He was 28, now 42 years old as Rudi Nureyev
Con O'Neill He was 43, now 57 years old as Tito
Anne-Marie Duff She was 39, now 53 years old as Margot Fonteyn
Lindsay Duncan She was 59, now 73 years old as Madam
Derek Jacobi He was 71, now 85 years old as Fred Ashton
Penelope Wilton She was 63, now 77 years old as B.Q.

Margot Crew

Name Department
Otto Bathurst as Director. He was 38 (now 53) years old Directing
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Margot (14 years)

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette...

  • Release day: Monday, November 30, 2009
  • Runtime: 85 minutes