Bolshoi Ballet (film)

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Movie
German title Bolshoi Ballet
Original title The Bolshoi Ballet
Country of production United Kingdom
original language no
Publishing year 1957
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Paul Czinner
production Paul Czinner
music Different composers
camera SD Onions

Bolshoi Ballet (Original title: The Bolshoi Ballet ) is a British documentary from 1957 directed by Paul Czinner . The work had its world premiere in Great Britain in October 1957. The first time the film was seen in Germany was in 1958.

content

The documentary shows excerpts from the London guest performance of the famous Russian ballet in 1956. You can see excerpts from the following works:

Giselle based
on the choreography by G. Corrali, G. Perrot and Marius Petipa and the music by Adolphe Adam with Galina Ulanowa , Nikolai Fadeyechew, Taisia ​​Monakhowa and Alexander Radunsky in the leading roles.

Spring floods based
on the choreography by Asaf Messerer and the music by Sergei Rachmaninoff with L. Bogomolowa and S. Vlaskowa.

Walpurgis Night based
on the choreography by Leonid Lavrowsky with music from the opera Faust by Charles Gounod with R. Struchkowa, A. Lapauri, G. Farmanyants and A. Trushkin in the leading roles.

Dance of the Tatars
from the ballet The Source by Bakhchhisarai based on the choreography by R. Zakharow with the music by B. Asafiev with M. Borisov, A. Kramarewsky and S. Yagudin in the leading roles.

Spanish dance
from the ballet Swan Lake after the choreography by Alexander Gorsky with the music by Peter Tschaikowski with S. Zvyagina, A. Nersesowa, Y. Sekh and G. Sitnikow.

Polonaise and Krakowiak based
on the choreography by Rostislaw Zacharow with music from the opera Ivan Susanin by Michael Glinka with S. Sangowich, S. Zvyagina, M. Kolpakchi, V. Petrowa, A. Radunsky and V. Levashew in the leading roles.

The orchestra of the Royal Opera Covent Garden and the Symphony Orchestra Bournemouth under the direction of Yuri Faier and Gennady Nikolajewitsch Roschdestvensky play .

criticism

The lexicon of international film only notes that director Czinner has documentary “preserved” the London guest performance of the Bolshoi Ballet and marks these statements with an asterisk, which means “worth seeing”. The state film evaluation agency Wiesbaden gave the work the rating "valuable".

source

Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by the publisher of the same name, Mannheim, without a number.

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Footnotes

  1. The exact dates are not known.
  2. Polonaise and Krakowiak are Polish folk dances.
  3. Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 400