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Film / 1965
Nights of Farewell
Directed by
Jean Dréville
Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer. He doesn't know that his life will develop both happily and dramatically, and his work will be the glory and pride of Russian ballet.
The story
Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer. He doesn't know that his life will develop both happily and dramatically, and his work will be the glory and pride of Russian ballet.
Cast
Gilles SégalMarius Petipa
Oleg StrizhenovPyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky
Jacques FerrièreAnton Minkh
Natalya VelichkoMashenka Surovshchikova-Petipa
Nikolai CherkasovGedeonov
Nikolay TrofimovPetrov
Gennadiy NilovLev Ivanov
Alla LarionovaLyubov Leonidovna
Vladislav StrzhelchikNicholas I of Russia
Yelena SokolovaKatenka
Pierre BertinPetipa's Father
Alexandre RignaultBigornet
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Viviane GossetPetipa's Mother
Sabine LodsKaterina Petipa
Nathalie NortDenise
Caroline ClerSinger
Jean MoussyLucien Petipa
Jean HoubéAntoine
Vladimir YemelyanovIvan Vsevolozhsky
Olga ZhadinaMasha Surovshchikova (12 y.o)
Nikolay KuzminTeamster
Tatyana PiletskayaTeacher
Sergey PolezhaevOfficer
Mikhail VasilyevDoorman
Marianna StrizhenovaGedeonov's Wife
Violetta KhusnulovaMasha
Tamara TimofeevaWardrobe Mistress
Yuri Lavrov
Stanislav FesyunovPriest
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