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Little Tragedies (Russian: Маленькие трагедии, romanized: Malenkie tragedii) is a 1979 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on works by Alexander Pushkin. [1] Dedicated to Pushkin's 180th birthday and 150th anniversary of Boldino Autumn , it was Vladimir Vysotsky's last movie role.
Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Пу́шкин; 7 September 1907 – 20 March 1970) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet master. His students include Askold Makarov , Nikita Dolgushin , Oleg Vinogradov , Margarita Trayanova , [ 1 ] Mikhail Baryshnikov , Sergei Berezhnoy , [ 2 ] and Rudolf Nureyev .
The New York Times wrote, "The White Crow is a portrait of the artist as a young man, an attempt to show the complex array of factors — biographical, psychological, social, political — that led to the moment when the 23-year-old dancer made a decision that would change the history of ballet: Nureyev became Nureyev by defecting from Russia ...
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) was a Russian poet. Alexander Pushkin may also refer to: Alexander Pushkin (ballet dancer) (1907–1970), Russian ballet master; Alexander Pushkin (diamond), colourless raw diamond found in Russia
The only surviving Bazaar scene. The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде) is a partially lost Soviet animated feature film directed by the husband-and-wife team Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Vera Tsekhanovskaya and based on the 1830 eponymous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin.
The Magic Mirror was the final ballet to be staged by Petipa and was probably his most controversial.Prince Serge Volkonsky commissioned Petipa to create the ballet in 1902, but soon afterwards, Volkonsky was forced to resign from his position as director after an incident with the Prima Ballerina, Mathilde Kschessinskaya and instead, The Magic Mirror was staged under the direction of Col ...
A movie that centres on people attending an artistic/sexual salon was a likely contender to feature unsimulated sex and Shortbus does, but director John Cameron Mitchell had a reason for including it.
Boris Godounov is a 1989 musical drama film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski, based on the opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky and the 1825 play of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. The film features the 1872 version of Mussorgsky's score, although with significant cuts.