Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova, also known as A Woman for All Time, is a 1983 biographical drama film depicting the life of the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, written and directed by Emil Loteanu and starring Galina Belyayeva, James Fox and Sergey Shakurov. It depicts Pavlova's passion for art and her collaboration with the reformers of ballet including Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev.
Plot
The film opens in the cold Saint Petersburg with a scene where Anna as a young girl observes through a window young dancers practicing. Although she catches a cold, Anna decides that she does not merely want to be a dancer but that she wants to be one of the best.
Cast
- Anatoliy Romashin
- Emil Loteanu
- Galina Belyayeva
- Galina Kravchenko
- Grigore Grigoriu
- Grigory Lyampe
- Igor Dmitriev
- Igor Sklyar
- James Fox
- Leonid Markov
- Martin Scorsese
- Natalia Fateeva
- Nikolai Kryukov
- Pyotr Gusev
- Sergey Shakurov
- Svetlana Svetlichnaya
- Svetlana Toma
- Valentina Ganibalova
- Valery Babyatinsky
- Vsevolod Larionov
- Yury Gusev
More details
| author | Emil Loteanu |
|---|---|
| director | Emil Loteanu |
| editor | Elena Galkina Irina Kalatikova Jim Connock |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | ballets russes farewell tour hague mariinsky theatre marius petipa mikhail fokine saint petersburg sergei diaghilev solo solo dance the dying swan young girl |
| musicBy | Eugen Doga |
| producer | Michael Powell |
| productionCompany | Mosfilm Poseidon Films Sovinfilm |
| publisher | Poseidon Film Distributors |
| theme | biographical biographical drama |