Film

Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

2012 · 2h 1m · Music · Comedy

A comic ballet in two acts

During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina, and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening… Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a Sylph and its many colorful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash. Captured live on Apr 29, 2012.

Svetlana Lunkina

Zina

Mikhail Lobukhin

Pytor

Maria Alexandrova

Ballerina

Ruslan Skvortsov

Ballet Dancer

Denis Savin

Accordionist

Alexei Loparevich

Old Dacha Dweller

Anastasia Vinokur

Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller

Egor Simachev

Gavrilych

Ksenia Pchelkina

Gayla

Anastasiya Meskova

Milkmaid

Alexander Voytyuk

Tractor Driver

Alexander Vorobiyov

Highlander

Batyr Annadurdyev

Field Worker from Kuban

Chinara Alizade

Zina's Friend

Yulia Lunkina

Zina's Friend

Svetlana Pavlova

Zina's Friend

• Vincent BataillonDirector
• Adrian PiotrovskiyStory
• François DuplatProducer
• Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer

Release date

April 29, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 1m

Genres

Music, Comedy

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