Anna Pavlova (film)
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| Directed by | Emil Loteanu |
| Screenplay by | Emil Loteanu |
| Story by | Emil Loteanu |
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| Music by | Eugen Doga |
| Cinematography | Yevgeny Guslinsky |
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| Distributed by | Poseidon Film Distributors |
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1983 |
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155 minutes 275 minutes (5 parts) |
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Anna Pavlova, also known as A Woman for All Time, is a 1983 biographical film directed by Emil Loteanu and starring Galina Belyayeva, James Fox and Sergey Shakurov. It depicts the life of the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova. It was a co-production between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. One of the producers of the film was the famed British director Michael Powell and featured American director Martin Scorsese in a cameo role.
The biopic depicts Anna Pavlova's passion for art and her collaboration with the reformers of ballet including Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev.
The film begins in the cold St. Petersburg with a scene where she 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.
It is shown how the classical master dancer and ballet teacher Marius Petipa helps her on to the path to glory and her rise in the imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Here she meets the young choreographer Mikhail Fokine with whom she rehearses The Dying Swan – the world-famous solo.
In 1909 Sergei Diaghilev founds the Ballets Russes in Paris for which he recruits the best Russian dancers and choreographers including Anna Pavlova. But after a short time she decides to move to London. Here she also celebrates major success and her triumph is world-wide; for example she performs in the US, Mexico and Venezuela. Always present is Victor Dandré – her manager, companion and husband.
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