The Bolshoi

About The Bolshoi

Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in order to become a diamond, anyone, even the most outstanding brilliant, needs to be cut, and the way to the legendary stage of The Bolshoi Theatr…

The Bolshoi (2016) is a drama film directed by Valery Todorovsky. Alisa Freyndlikh appears as Beletskaya, Valentina Telichkina as Untilova, Alexandr Domogarov as Pototskiy, and Nicolas Le Riche as Antoine.

Released in December 2016, it runs 132 minutes. Written by Anastasiya Palchikova.

Shelv files it under dancing, ballet, ballet dancer, and ballerina. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads. It scores 6.1 out of 10 from 55 TMDB voters.

Black Swan, Billy Elliot, and The White Crow make useful companions to The Bolshoi.