Pavlova: A Woman for All Time

Anna Pavlova

Soviet Union, United Kingdom, East Germany, France, Cuba

1983

155 Min

Color

2.20:1

Russian, English

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Michael Powell, Serafim Karalexis, Erik Waisberg

DP Yevgeni Guslinsky, Vladimir Nakhabtsev

CAST Galina Belyayeva, Lina Buldakova, Sergey Shakurov, Vsevolod Larionov, James Fox, Jacques Debary, Georgio Dimitriou, Pyotr Gusev

ED Michael Powell, Jim Connock, Yelena Galkina, Irina Kolotikova

The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Dyaghilev’s Ballet in Paris and in London. Anna Pavlova eventually formed her own troupe. She made a successful world tour together with Viktor d’Andre, who was her husband and manager. —IMDb

Director

Emil Loteanu

Emil Loteanu (November 6, 1936 – April 18, 2003) was a Soviet and Moldovian film director from Moldova. He moved to Moscow in his early life.

Loteanu was born in Clocuşna, and after the death of his father and losing contact with his mother, who had moved to Romania, lived his early life on the streets, sleeping in warehouses and hostels. He studied at the Mkhat studio school and graduated from VGIK in 1962. He made his directorial debut with Bolshaya gora in 1960 at the Moldova Film Studio, and continued to make films there until 1975, when he joined Mosfilm. With films such as Tabor ukhodit v nebo (aka Queen of the Gypsies, 1975) and Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver (aka A Hunting Accident, (1977), Loteanu began to attract international attention.

Loteanu died on April 18, 2003, in Moscow, at the age of 66. —Wikipedia