Film

Bolshoi Ballet: The Golden Age

Director
Pierce Jackson
Certificate
12A
Running Time
140 mins

It’s 1923 and the joint is jumping at a lively coastal Soviet cabaret club called The Golden Age, where gangsters and their molls hang out. Horny young fisherman Boris falls for hot dancer Rita, who is, alas, the arm candy of a local wrong ‘un…

Shostakovich‘s satirical jazz age ballet fell out of favour for 50 years for political reasons, but was revived in 1982 by Yuri Grigorovich, the Bolshoi’s artistic director, and has remained a Bolshoi staple ever since. Note that this is a pre-recorded screening rather than a live broadcast.

By robin askew, Friday, Jan 18 2019

Tags:

  • Event Cinema
  • Ballet

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