Struggling circus owner Max Medici enlists a former star and his two children to care for Dumbo, a baby elephant born with oversized ears.

Directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, this film about the defection of Rudolf Nureyev to the West is adapted by David Hare and Julie Kavanagh, from her biography of Nureyev. With Ukrainian dancer Oleg Ivenko as Nureyev and Sergei Polunin as his roommate.