Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Plisetskaya was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich. In 1960 she became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.37 |
| Birthday | 1925-11-20 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow, USSR [now Russia] |
| Also Known As | Майя Плисецкая, Maïa Plissetskaïa, |
1957
Swan Lake
0/0
the Ballet
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Swan Lake
1967
Anna Karenina
5.8/20
The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happines...
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Anna Karenina
1954
Stars of the Russian Ballet
5/3
An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". It was entered into the 1954...
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Stars of the Russian Ballet
1970
Tchaikovsky
4.6/5
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of hi...
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Tchaikovsky
1975
Anna Karenina
6/6
The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya who also took on the titular role. Anna Kare...
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Anna Karenina
1970
New Year's Abduction
6/2
The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's conc...
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New Year's Abduction
2006
Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
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Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925 and studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School, becoming a principal dancer with the Bolshoi on graduati...
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Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
1976
Fantasia
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A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.
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Fantasia
1966
Новогодний календарь
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Новогодний календарь
2008
Mariinsky Theatre
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A look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian tradition in opera, music and ballet.
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Mariinsky Theatre
1962
The Little Humpbacked Horse
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The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy (Vladimir Vasiliev) and a lucky horse (Alla Shche...
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The Little Humpbacked Horse
1978
Carmen Suite
3/2
The plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen in love with her and whom Carmen leaves for the young...
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Carmen Suite
1985
M.K.C. Zodiakas
0/0
The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's lives, as well as dreams, pain or joy...
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M.K.C. Zodiakas
1959
Khovanshchina
6.5/4
Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.
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