Ballerina
About Ballerina
Natasha Subbotina, just out of the choreographic school, looks for a new way to dance the lead in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. Alexei Ozerov, a conservatory student and opera singer, falls in love with her. Galina Ulanova appears as the prima ballerina Sinelnikova, with Vladimir Preobrazhensky as her partner.
Cast & crew
More about Ballerina
Aleksandr Ivanovsky directed from a script he wrote with Aron Erlikh. Arkadi Koltsaty was the cameraman, Isaac Mahlis the designer, and Venedikt Pushkov the composer. The Russian title is Solistka baleta. Mira Redina plays Natasha and Viktor Kazanovich plays Ozerov.
Themes
Reviews
Ivan Bolshakov, then head of Soviet cinema, called the film mediocre. A. Stoyanov, in Iskusstvo Kino no. 3 of 1947, wrote that the musical-comedy genre had gone thin and blamed Erlikh's script, while praising Mira Redina. Rostislav Yurenev also singled out Redina and called the love story dull and the picture of easy success in art a stock lie.
Look
Arkadi Koltsaty shot the film at Lenfilm, including the ballet passages with Ulanova and Redina.
Music
Venedikt Pushkov wrote the score. The ballet Natasha is learning is Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
Notes
- Olga Zhizneva plays the ballet teacher Nelidova and Vladimir Gardin the conservatory professor Lyubomirsky.
- Tatyana Piletskaya appears in a bit that is not on the credits.
- Nonna Yastrebova plays Olga Vereyskaya, with Nina Boldyreva and Konstantin Adashevsky as Olga's parents.
Scenes
- Natasha works on a new reading of the lead in Sleeping Beauty.
- Ulanova dances as the prima ballerina Sinelnikova.
