Yuli 2018

Description:

Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His father, however, has other ideas, and knowing that his son has a natural talent for dance, sends him to the National Ballet School of Cuba. Despite his repeated escapes and initial poor behaviour, the boy is inevitably drawn to the world of dance, and begins to shape his legendary career from a young age, becoming the first black dancer to be cast in some of the most prestigious ballet roles, originally written for white dancers, in companies such as the Houston Ballet or the Royal Ballet in London.

Keywords:

Related movies:

⭐  7.0
💛  3,443

The Whole Wide World (1996)
Dan Ireland

⭐  7.2
💛  6,885

Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Max Färberböck

⭐  6.3
💛  34,760

The Libertine (2004)
Laurence Dunmore

⭐  8.2
💛  1,186

John Leguizamo: Freak (1998)
Spike Lee

⭐  8.5
💛  23,895

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
N/A

⭐  6.7
💛  8,128

Rebel in the Rye (2017)
Danny Strong

⭐  5.9
💛  8,322

Mary Magdalene (2018)
Garth Davis

⭐  7.4
💛  11,359

I Can Only Imagine (2018)
Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin

⭐  6.4
💛  19,992

Lonely Hearts (2006)
Todd Robinson

⭐  7.1
💛  100,780

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Mike Nichols

⭐  6.5
💛  10,628

Freeheld (2015)
Peter Sollett

⭐  7.3
💛  318

Memories and Confessions (1993)
Manoel de Oliveira

⭐  7.7
💛  2,575

A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985)
Hsiao-Hsien Hou

⭐  6.9
💛  1,281

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Vincent J. Donehue

⭐  7.1
💛  10,686

American Me (1992)
Edward James Olmos

⭐  6.3
💛  204

Camus (2010)
Laurent Jaoui

⭐  6.7
💛  37,654

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Joe Berlinger

⭐  7.5
💛  7,103

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Robert Wise