Maya Plisetskaya
Also Known As: Майя Плисецкая, Maïa Plissetskaïa
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: November 20, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 02, 2015
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Новогодний календарь
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Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Swan Lake
Overview: the Ballet
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-10-21
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Mariinsky Theatre
Overview: A look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian tradition in opera, music and ballet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-02
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Anna Karenina
Overview: The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happiness to her beloved person. She has to take a very serious step in her life - to part with her son. The attitude of the high society towards her is changing. All this brings a lot of pain and humiliation to the main character. The tragic story of love and betrayal, the fate of a woman, for the sake of passion who decided to change her life irrevocably.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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Carmen Suite
Overview: The plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen in love with her and whom Carmen leaves for the young Torero.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Little Humpbacked Horse
Overview: The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy (Vladimir Vasiliev) and a lucky horse (Alla Shcherbinina).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-06
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Tchaikovsky
Overview: The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovsky’s guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovsky’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-08-31
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M.K.C. Zodiakas
Overview: The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's lives, as well as dreams, pain or joy...
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-03
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Anna Karenina
Overview: The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya who also took on the titular role. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-10-18
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Khovanshchina
Overview: Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-11-14
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Stars of the Russian Ballet
Overview: An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Filmed in color.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-02-09
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New Year's Abduction
Overview: The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-13
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Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
Overview: Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925 and studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School, becoming a principal dancer with the Bolshoi on graduating in 1943. She became prima ballerina in 1962, and after being excluded for political reasons many years from tours to the West, she was finally in 1959 allowed to join the American tour with the Bolshoi. She soon gained recognition as one of the world's foremost ballerinas, combining flawless technique with a sensitivity to emotional nuance and becoming the first to truly understand how to combine outstanding dance skills with dramatic expression. This documentary features footage of her greatest successes as a ballerina together with an interview in which Plisetskaya describes her life as a dancer, from Stalin to perestroika, giving an insight into the life of an artist in this extraordinary chapter of Russian history.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Fantasia
Overview: A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-11-26
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Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
Overview: Product Description ••••• A complete 1978 performance of this classic ballet stars the magnificent Nadezhda Pavlova and Vyacheslav Gordeev; the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra is conducted by Alexander Kopilov. DVD Bonus: Scenes from Don Quixote filmed at the Bolshoi in 1964 and starring the legendary dancers Maya Plisetskaya and Maris Liepa; Bolshoi Orchestra conducted by Youri Fayer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-03-17
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Lady with the Dog
Overview: Rodion Shchedrin's ballet based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov, staged by the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. The inimitable Maya Plisetskaya in the on-screen version of the theatrical ballet, which is an original production, solved by means of a television movie.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-09-08
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Maya Plisetskaya – (Un)known
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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