The Bolshoi Ballet (Original title)
Date: 28 August 1986 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Michael Houldey
Synopsis: Interviews with leading figures in Soviet ballet and specially filmed excerpts from the Bolshoi's current repertoire. Film of rehearsals in Moscow and sequences filmed at the Moscow Choreographic Institute. The Bolshoi's Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich appears on television for the first time and Galina Ulanova talks about her career with the Company. Messerer, Plisetskaya, Vassiliev, Maximova and Lavrovsky add their reminiscences. Also featured are members of the present Company - Natalya Bessmertnova, Ludmilla Semenyaka, Irek Mukhamedov and Andris Liepa. There are extracts from `Giselle', `Don Quixote', `Ivan the Terrible, `Raymondo' and `The Seagull'.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Ballet, Ballet companies
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 28 August 1986Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:30-23:40Runtime: 127 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 28 August 1986 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Michael Houldey
Synopsis: Interviews with leading figures in Soviet ballet and specially filmed excerpts from the Bolshoi's current repertoire. Film of rehearsals in Moscow and sequences filmed at the Moscow Choreographic Institute. The Bolshoi's Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich appears on television for the first time and Galina Ulanova talks about her career with the Company. Messerer, Plisetskaya, Vassiliev, Maximova and Lavrovsky add their reminiscences. Also featured are members of the present Company - Natalya Bessmertnova, Ludmilla Semenyaka, Irek Mukhamedov and Andris Liepa. There are extracts from `Giselle', `Don Quixote', `Ivan the Terrible, `Raymondo' and `The Seagull'.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Ballet, Ballet companies
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 28 August 1986Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:30-23:40Runtime: 127 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Credits
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Production Company: Flickers Productions, Sponsor: BBC, Executive Producer: Alan Yentob, Producer: Neil Zeiger, Producer: Martin Proctor, Film cameraman: Colin Waldeck, Film editor: Stephen Evans
Cast
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Natalya Bessmertnova, Yuri Grigorovich, Ludmilla Semenyaka, Galina Ulanova, Nina Ananiashvili, Asaf Messerer, Irek Mukhamedov, Maya Plisetskaya, Andris Liepa, Vladimir Vassiliev, Yekaterina Maximova, Léonid Lavrovsky