Tag: russian ballet

  • Dancing Ghosts

    Choreographic school, young talents are collected here. Behind eight years of study – three months remain before the final performance. And finally, “Giselle” is appointed, roles are distributed, girls are worried – they are afraid of the wording “professionally unsuitable”, but Yulya’s thoughts are different. She fell in love for the first time. And she…

  • The Restless Garden

    Summer 1991. The last days of the Soviet Empire. Dark clouds gathered over Moscow as the Soviet government prepared to turn back the clock of history. While the world focused on the crashing Soviet Empire, this film focuses on the people who would’ve been among the first to suffer repression – the women and men…

  • The Nutcracker

    In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

  • The Bolshoi

    Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in order to become a diamond, anyone, even the most outstanding brilliant,…

  • The White Crow

    The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes…