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Summary
Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different stages in their career.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Skip it if
- You want something to laugh at
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 75GoodWatch 76
Audience score79%
IMDb7.3
Letterboxd · 337 ratings3.6/5
Running time
1 h 17 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −19 min on the typical 96
typical 9677Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
2006
August 31, 2006
20 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
French
Original language
Also spoken
RussianMade in
France
Russia
and 11 more19 people
- Alina SomovaSelf
- Evguenya ObraztsovaSelf
- Svetlana ZakharovaSelf
- Diana VishnevaSelf
- Ulyana LopatkinaSelf
- Valery GergievSelf
- Makhar VazievSelf
- Andrian FadeyevSelf
Igor ZelenskySelf- OCOlga ChenchikovaSelf
- GKGalina KekishevaSelf
Olga MoiseyevaSelf- GSGennadi SelyutskySelf
- AAAltynai AsylmuratovaSelf
- LSLudmila SafronovaSelf
Manuel LegrisSelf
Cédric KlapischSelf
Pierre LacotteSelf
Jennifer VuleticNarrator (English)
Directing · 1
- Bertrand Normand Director, Screenplay, Camera Operator, Cinematography
Production · 9
- Frederic Podetti Producer
- Yann Brolli Producer
- Laurence Milon Production Assistant
- Betina Chokroun Production Assistant
- Marion Morello Production Assistant
- Cindy Engoulevent Production Secretary
Camera · 6
- Edward Oleschak Additional Camera
- Dominique Colin Additional Camera
- Igor Yurov Additional Camera
- Franck Laniel Camera Operator
- Isabelle Saunois Camera Operator
- Alexandre Filipov Additional Camera
Editing · 3
- Antonella Bevenja Editor
- Arnaud Sentenac Color Timer
- Fanny Piquel Online Editor
Sound · 4
- Cyril Moisson Additional Soundtrack
- Sandrine Henchoz Sound Editor
- Victor Smirnov Additional Soundtrack
- Raoul Fruhauf Sound Mixer
Other crew · 1
- Thierry Maisonnave Special Effects
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