Academy Awards, USA 1959
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Yuri Faier Gennadi Rozhdestvensky |
J. Arthur Rank (UK)
Directed by Paul Czinner
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)
Performances by the famous Russian ballet company filmed at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. After a few brief dances, longer pieces are performed including an abbreviated version of Giselle featuring Galina Ulanova, who is greeted with enthusiastic applause each time she appears. The "special method and technique" boasted in the opening credits by director Czinner apparently referred to filming from several angles over a period of nights after the main performance and then editing them together. Hardly revolutionary today, but still of historical interest.
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