Galina Ulanova

Galina Ulanova , 1963 (58:54)

Annotation: A film is about the world-famos ballet dancer Galina Ulanova.

History: The film includes footage in different years by operators during performances and concerts.

Film description: City of Moscow. GS Ulanova talking with the conductor A. Roitman. Fragments from the ballets "Swan Lake", "Cinderella," "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai," Red Flower "," Romeo and Juliet, Giselle. Says GS Ulanova (synchronously). Photos of scenes from the ballets. Book Pages GS Ulanova School ballerina. Bolshoi Theater. GS Ulanova passes at the theater, in the dressing up room, in rehearsal. The audience fills the hall. Fragments from the ballet "Swan Lake". Types of family photos. Forest, river landscapes. GS Ulanova in the museum. Paintings, sculptures. Fragments from the ballet "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai. Playing S. Prokofiev. Scenes from the ballet "Romeo and Juliet. China. GS Ulanova rides in the car on the street of the city. Photos G. S. Ulanova among Chinese actors, the Chinese girls. Fragments from the ballet "The Red Flower", "Giselle". The audience applauded. Participants ballet bows. GS Ulanova at a press conference, speaks with an American writer A. Kahn - author of a book about it. USA. City of New York. The queue for tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. Photos, portraits, sculpture GS Ulanova. Academician D. Skobeltsyn presents GS Ulanova Order of Lenin. GS Ulanova in rehearsal with Yekaterina Maximova. Fragments from the ballet "Les Sylphides". GS Ulanova passes on the Kremlin's Alexander Garden.

Source description 1: Galina Ulanova is talking to the conductor A.S. Roytman in the Big Hall at the film studio where dubbing is in process.
Galina Ulanova is walking along the Moskva river quay.
A fragment of ballet performed by Galina Sergeyevna.
Galina Ulanova is speaking about her creative work.
Pictures of Ulanova in her roles.
The Ballerina School book by Ulanova translated to foreign languages.
A picture: Galina as a child.
Drawings showing the training years of Ulanova at the Leningrad Ballet School.
A picture: Galina Ulanova’s mother – Maria Fedorovna Romanova .
The Bolshoi Theatre building.
Ulanova is coming to the Theatre for rehearsal.
Decorations are being set on the stage.
Ulanova in the make-up room, adjusting ballet-slippers by hands.
Ulanova at the piano turning music-pages.
Ulanova’s dance in “Shopeniana” ballet.
The Bolshoi Theatre at night.
Public in the hall.
Ulanova in the make-up room.
A statuette of Galina Ulanova.
A fragment from the ballet “Lebedinoye Ozero” [“Swan Lake”] by P Chaikovsky.

Source description 2: A fragment from the ballet “Lebedinoye Ozero” [“Swan Lake”].
Audience is applauding.
Ulanova is bowing.
A picture of Ulanova’s father – the ballet director of Sergey Nikolayevich Ulanov.
A picture of Galina Sergeyevna’s parents.
A picture of Ulanova with a deer.
Landscapes: a forest, river, reed.
Paintings by Levitan, Serov, Vrubel.
Ulanova in the Tretyakov Art Gallery.
Ulanova against the background of pyramids in Egypt; on the steamer deck (in New York, shot of sky-scrapers); at the Niagara waterfall.
At А.S. Pushkin’s memorial at Tsarskoye Selo [Tsar Village] (sitting on the bench).
The poem “Bakhchisaraisky Fontan” [“Fontain of Bakhisaray”] by Alexander Pushkin.
A picture of Ulanova – she is in her role as Maria from the “Bakhchisaraisky Fontan” [“Fontain of Bakhisaray”] ballet by Astafyev.
A statue of Tsarskoye Selo [Tsar Village] – a maiden is over broken jug .

Source description 3: G.S. Ulanova with Composer Sergey Prokofiev (he is at piano).
Creating the image of Juliet for the ballet “Romeo and Juliet” by Prokofyev, Ulanova is turning over the pages of the book, looking at the pictures of Renaissance.
A fragment of the ballet the premiere of which was performed in Leningrad
Leningrad. A Neva quay.
The Bolshoi Theatre.
A fragment of the ballet on the Moscow stage (the first ball, secret wedding, matchmaking of Paris, taking the sleeping-draught in the bed-room, parting of Romeo with Juliet at crypt, Romeo’s death).

Source description 4: Fragment from the ballet “Romeo and Juliet” (Juliet’s death).
Composer R.Gliyer – the author of the ballet “Krasnaya shapochka” [“Red Poppy”].
A statuette of Ulanova in the role of the chinese Tao Khoa.
Ulanova riding in Beijing.
Public of Beijing.
A picture of Ulanova between Chinese actors, by May Lan Fan.
May Lan Fan playing the role of a Chinese woman.
A picture - Ulanova with the Chinese girls.
Chinese girls at work: with ears at hands and collecting tea leaves.
Fragments from the ballet “Red Poppy” (the dance with umbrellas; sailors giving Tao Khoa a read poppy– symbol of freedom).
Music pages are being turned.
A picture of Ulanova in the role of Giselle.
A fragment from the ballet “Giselle” by Adan (the meeting with a lover).

Source description 5: A fragment from the ballet “Giselle” by Adan (walts; the scene of madness; dancing shade of Giselle).
Audience is applouding.
Ulanova and other participant of the ballet are bowing.
French actors including Gerard Filip are applauding.
Shots of a Soviet ballet tour around foreign countries (audience is applauding,
Ulanova is bowing).
Ulanova among foreign reporters.
The American writer Albert Kann is talking to Ulanova.
The book about Ulanova by A.Kann, pictures from the book.
Ulanova.

Source description 6: Pictures of Ulanova in different roles.
A fragment from the ballet “Umirayushchy Lebed’ [“Dying Swan”] by Sen-Sans.
New York streets – queue of people for tickets on the Bolshoi Theatre performances (people are sitting, standing).
Books about Ulanova and her creative works in foreign languages.
Ulanova’s portrait by Vireisky.
A sculpture of Ulanova.
N.S. Tikhonov is handing to Galina Ulanova a Lenin Order and Diploma of Lenin Prize Winner.
She is getting congratulations from the oldest Russian actress А.А. Yablochkina and the young ballerina Katya Maksimova.
Galina Ulanova on the rehearsal with Katya Maksimova.
Ulanova training before appearance at the stage.
Ulanova is dancing “Shopeniana” (ballet to Copin’s music).
Ulanova is walking in the Aleksandrovsky garden.

Directors: Kristi L., Slavinskaya M.

Operators: Khavchin A.

Script writers: Lvov-Anokhin B.

Announcer: Khmara L.