
1983
The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably difficult, but dreams of a ballerina career make her stubbornly deal with adversity. Anna’s performance and determination does not go unnoticed by the celebrated choreographer Marius Petipa, who helps to stage Pavlova's examination performance. Such a gift becomes a starting point for Ani in the world of big ballet, her fast-paced career, position in high society and world fame make her forget about close friends and especially her faithful Michel Fokine, who invested a lot of energy in the formation of a ballerina.

Galina Belyaeva
Anna Pavlova

James Fox
Victor d'André

Sergey Shakurov
Michel Fokine

Vsevolod Larionov
Sergei Diaghilev

Tiit Härm
Alexander Volinin

Ion Sandri Scurea
Theodore Stier

Anatoliy Romashin
Alexandre Benois

Igor Dmitriev
Léon Bakst

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
Aganson

Nikolai Kryukov
Oscar II of Sweden

Valeri Babyatinsky
Grand Duke

Oleg Kimmel
Michel Fokine in childhood

Lina Buldakova
Anna Pavlova in childhood

Svetlana Toma
Lyubov Pavlova

Pyotr Gusev
Marius Petipa

Alkis Kritikos
Albert d'André

Jacques Debary
Camille Saint-Saëns

Gheorghe Dimitriu
Enrico Cecchetti

Leonid Markov
General Bezobrazov

Grigore Grigoriu
Mordkin

Galiks Kolchitskiy
speaker in the Duma

Mikhail Krapivin
Nijinsky

Valentina Reshetnikova
Yekaterina

Vsevolod Safonov
Woldemar Freedericksz

Viktor Sergachyov
Telyakovsky

Natalya Fateyeva
Kschessinska

Igor Sklyar
Serge Lifar

Roy Kinnear
gardener

John Murray
Sol Hurok

Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Masha

Afanasiy Trishkin
Sergeyev

Bruce Forsyth
impresario Butt

Martin Scorsese
Gatti-Casazza

Alla Plotkina
Ms. Brighton

Galina Iniutina
woman in audience

Anatoly Slivnikov
man in audience

Vladimir Sidorov
student

Ivan Shkyra
Victor Steir

Anastassia Stakis
Rosemary

Svetlana Toma
Anna's Mother

Natalya Fateyeva
Mathilde Kschessinska

Michael Kradunin
Vaslav Nijinsky

Tiit Härm
Alexandre Volinine

Au Revoir les Enfants

The Secret

Michael Collins

The Elephant Man

Live and Become

Redoubt

Spoiled Children

Could This Be Love?

Quero Dizer-te Adeus

Lords of Chaos

The Perfect Storm

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

La duquesa

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

The Cousins

Topaz

Teheran '43

Rendezvous in Paris

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Time to Leave