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6.1/10   86 votes
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Director:
Emil Loteanu
Writers:
Emil Loteanu (story)
Emil Loteanu (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
2 December 1983 (Finland) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama | Music more
Plot:
The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She became an... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Emotionally wonderful and thought-provoking! more (2 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Galina Belyayeva ... Anna Pavlova
Lina Buldakova ... Pavlova as a Child
Sergey Shakurov ... Mikhail Fokine
Vsevolod Larionov ... Sergei Diaghilev
James Fox ... Victor D'Andre
Jacques Debary ... Saint-Saens
Georgio Dimitriou ... Enrico Cecchetti
Pyotr Gusev ... Marius Petipa (as P. Gusev)
John Murray
Svetlana Toma
Natalya Fateyeva
Valentina Reshetnikova

Martin Scorsese ... Gatti-Cassaza
Igor Sklyar
Igor Dmitriyev
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Woman for All Time
Pavlova
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time
The Divine Anna
The White Swan (UK) (restored version)
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Runtime:
155 min | Japan:135 min | UK:133 min
Country:
Soviet Union | East Germany | Cuba | France | UK
Language:
English | Russian
Color:
Color (Sovcolor)
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Australia:G | Finland:S | UK:U
Company:
Poseidon Productions more

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Trivia:
Originally conceive and filmed as a 5-hour miniseries, Paramount ultimately decided that they wanted a two hour film. Thelma Schoonmaker (famed editor and wife of Michael Powell) manage to salvage a 160 minute theatrical version. Paramount, however, ultimately cut the film down further to its current 133 minute state. After a terrible post-production session, including a poor dubbing and syncing of the English version, the compromised version was released with the Loteanu credit. Producer Frixos Constantine called it "artistically a disaster" for Michael Powell. It was the last film he would direct. more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Emotionally wonderful and thought-provoking!, 25 February 1999
10/10
Author: Nurey from Toronto, Canada

I am Russian and I have a great love for Ballet, both watching it and performing. I only watched this movie once, and now wish to see it again.

This documentary is, on my scale, as good as Burnt by the Sun! And that's the highest on my scale!

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