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The Bolshoi

The Bolshoi

20166.12h 12m

Overview

Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in order to become a diamond, anyone, even the most outstanding brilliant, needs to be cut, and the way to the legendary stage of The Bolshoi Theatre for Yulya lies through the walls of the ballet school, where the more capricious teacher Galina Mikhailovna Beletskaya takes custody of the rebellious provincial. Turning into a prima will require incredible self-denial, and Yulya herself will have to make sure that the big ballet is not only the whiteness of the packs, the gold of the boxes and the slip of silk ribbons. But no obstacles will stop the one who has the big dream.

Directed by Valery Todorovsky
Written by Valery Todorovsky, Ilya Tilkin, Anastasiya Palchikova
Produced by Anton Zlatopolskiy, Valery Todorovsky
Box OfficeBudget: $6.4MRevenue: $4.0M

Top Cast

Alisa Freyndlikh

Alisa Freyndlikh

Beletskaya

Valentina Telichkina

Valentina Telichkina

Untilova

Alexandr Domogarov

Alexandr Domogarov

Pototskiy

N

Nicolas Le Riche

Antoine

Margarita Simonova

Margarita Simonova

Yulya Olshanskaya

Y

Yekaterina Samuylina

Yulya in childhood

Anna Isaeva

Anna Isaeva

Karina Kurnikova

A

Anastasiya Plotnikova

Karina in childhood

Anastasiya Prokofyeva

Anastasiya Prokofyeva

Tanya Yefremova

A

Anna Tarasenko

Tanya in childhood

Themes & Keywords

dancingballet dancerballetballerinaprima ballerinarussian ballet

About The Bolshoi

The Bolshoi is a drama film released in 2016 exploring themes of dancing, ballet dancer, ballet, ballerina, prima ballerina, russian ballet. Directed by Valery Todorovsky, it stars Alisa Freyndlikh, Valentina Telichkina, Alexandr Domogarov. Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in order to become a diamond, anyone, even the most outstanding brilliant, needs to be cut, and the way to the legendary stage of The Bolshoi Theatre for Yulya lies through the walls of the ballet school, where the more capricious teacher Galina Mikhailovna Beletskaya takes custody of the rebellious provincial. Turning into a prima will require incredible self-denial, and Yulya herself will have to make sure that the big ballet is not only the whiteness of the packs, the gold of the boxes and the slip of silk ribbons. But no obstacles will stop the one who has the big dream.

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