Overview

Head to the Rialto theatre on January 26 at 20:30 to experience this film about the path to become a ballerina at one of the top and most challenging institutions in the world, The Bolshoi.

Plot: This story is about a dream. And about the tortuous path to making a dream come true. Yulka is a young girl from a poor mining town. When her father dies, she runs away from home, to Moscow, to become a ballerina, as her father dreamed. And she is accepted into the ballet academy at the Bolshoi Theatre. Yulya is incredibly talented, and a grand career awaits. She acquires a mentor – a gifted older ballerina. Both her best friend and, at the same time, her chief rival. But Yulya’s complex character, falling in love, her family’s dire straits – all these components of normal life – become obstacles on her career path. And she of her own volition gives up the leading role in the final performance. And with it – her dream. And only with the passage of several years does she realise that she made the wrong choice, that ballet is her life. And that nothing else has any meaning. And they she begins her journey again, overcoming difficulties, obstacles in the world around her, and her own mistakes. And she gets a second chance. The chance to become who she really is.

Producers: Valery Todorovsky, Anton Zlatopolsky

Concept: Valery Todorovsky

Screenplay: Anastasia Palchikova

On the motives of the adapted synopsis by Ilya Tilkin, Valery Todorovsky

Director of photography: Sergey Mikhalchuk

Production designer: Vladimir Gudilin

Costume designer: Alexander Osipov

Sound: Sergey Chuprov

Editor: Alexey Bobrov

Composer: Anna Drubich, Pavel Karmanov

Leading Actors: Margarita Simonova, Anna Isaeva, Alisa Freindlich, Valentina Telishkina, Alexander Domogarov, Nicolas Le Riche

In Russian with English and Greek subtitles.

In collaboration with the Russian Cultural Centre.

Duration: 132′

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