Margot

Margot Fonteyn has inspired generations of ballerinas. She was beautiful, brilliant, talented and never put a foot wrong on stage. Her late flowering partnering with a much younger man, Rudolf Nureyev, created the most dazzling ballet partnership in history. And yet behind the scenes, as Darcey Bussell discovers, Margot's life was marked by tragedy and disappointment. She barely knew her father and was dominated by her well-meaning, yet fiercely ambitious, mother. She couldn't find love and never had children. And when she finally did marry, to a man she loved from afar for many years, he turned out to be very different from what she expected: a hero to his people, but not always to his wife.

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.

Barnie aime sa femme, sa maîtresse et son amant. Son lieu de travail est à Londres, celui de résidence en France. Le jour de son anniversaire, il reçoit trois cadeaux identiques, chacun venant respectivement de ses trois amours: trois week-end en amoureux à Venise en Orient-Express, le premier mai. Pour préserver son mariage, il renvoie les deux billets à ses amoureux clandestins. Cependant, Barnie se trompe en les postant…

Paul Averhoff war einst als Marathonläufer eine Legende. Doch die glorreichen Tage sind lang vorbei. Jetzt, über 70 Jahre alt, muss er mit Gattin Margot ins Altersheim - die Tochter, eine Stewardess, hat zu wenig Zeit, sich um die Eltern …