Anna Pavlova (1983)
Drama
Overview
The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably difficult, but dreams of a ballerina career make her stubbornly deal with adversity. Anna’s performance and determination does not go unnoticed by the celebrated choreographer Marius Petipa, who helps to stage Pavlova's examination performance. Such a gift becomes a starting point for Ani in the world of big ballet, her fast-paced career, position in high society and world fame make her forget about close friends and especially her faithful Michel Fokine, who invested a lot of energy in the formation of a ballerina.
Cast
- Galina Belyaeva as Anna Pavlova
- James Fox as Victor d'André
- Sergey Shakurov as Michel Fokine
- Vsevolod Larionov as Sergei Diaghilev
- Tiit Härm as Alexander Volinin
- Ion Sandri Scurea as Theodore Stier
- Anatoliy Romashin as Alexandre Benois
- Igor Dmitriev as Léon Bakst
- Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy as Aganson
- Nikolai Kryukov as Oscar II of Sweden