Surprisingly sublime, Paul Czinner's film The Bolshoi Ballet documents some gorgeous performances, especially Galina Ulanova's work in Giselle, which takes up the latter half of the film.
The Bolshoi Ballet is rather a strange film: it comprises only documentary footage of a ballet performance. It's a recording of an evening with the Bolshoi. But, as I say the Giselle sequence is sublime, and this is therefore a kind of treasure. The Bolshoi Ballet captures a beautiful moment in the mid-twentieth-century ballet repertoire with one of its great stars.
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