Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Plisetskaya was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich. In 1960 she became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.
Anna Karenina
as princess BetsyThe plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei...
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Tchaikovsky
as DesireThe film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of...
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Anna Karenina
as Anna KareninaThe film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya...
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M.K.C. Zodiakas
as МузаThe plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's...
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Mariinsky Theatre
as SelfA look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian...
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New Year's Abduction
as uncreditedThe fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances...
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Fantasia
as uncreditedA TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.
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Khovanshchina
as uncreditedModest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.
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Carmen Suite
as CarmenThe plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen...
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The Little Humpbacked Horse
as Queen MaidenThe Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a...
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Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
as uncreditedMaya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925 and studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School,...
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