Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova

155 mins | Drama | July 11, 1983

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.

Anna Pavlova

155 mins | Drama | July 11, 1983

Anna Pavlova
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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Mosfilm, DEFA, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos, Sovinfilm, Poseidon Productions, Cosmos Film
Original title Анна Павлова
Directors Emil Loteanu
Writers Emil Loteanu

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

Anatoli Romashin

as Alexandre Benois

Igor Dmitriev

as Léon Bakst

Nikolai Kryukov

as Oscar II of Sweden

Valeri Babyatinsky

as Grand Duke

Oleg Kimmel

as Michel Fokine in childhood

Lina Buldakova

as Anna Pavlova in childhood

Svetlana Toma

as Lyubov Pavlova

Pyotr Gusev

as Marius Petipa

Alkis Kritikos

as Albert d'André

Jacques Debary

as Camille Saint-Saëns

Gheorghe Dimitriu

as Enrico Cecchetti

Leonid Markov

as General Bezobrazov

Grigore Grigoriu

as Mordkin

Galiks Kolchitskiy

as speaker in the Duma

Mikhail Krapivin

as Nijinsky

Valentina Reshetnikova

as Yekaterina

Vsevolod Safonov

as Woldemar Freedericksz

Viktor Sergachyov

as Telyakovsky

Natalya Fateeva

as Kschessinska

Igor Sklyar

as Serge Lifar

Roy Kinnear

as gardener

John Murray

as Sol Hurok

Afanasiy Trishkin

as Sergeyev

Bruce Forsyth

as impresario Butt

Martin Scorsese

as Gatti-Casazza

Alla Plotkina

as Ms. Brighton

Galina Inyutina

as woman in audience

Anatoly Slivnikov

as man in audience