UNDERGROUND BALLET

By Lina CHAPLIN

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Documentary - Completed 2019

A decade ago Nadia and her mother, Nina Timofeyeva, a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet, left Moscow for Jerusalem and set up the studio. It was a professional suicide. Ballet and football make for a surrealistic combination.

Festivals
& Awards

Haifa International Film Festival 2019
The Rozalia Katz Award for Best Israeli Documentary Film, Haifa IFF 2019
European Film Market 2020
Market Premiere
Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival 2020
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ISRAEL
    • Languages
    • HEBREW, RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 53 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Lina CHAPLIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Daniela REISS RAZON
    • Synopsis
    • When fans of the football club of Beitar Jerusalem make their way to Teddy Stadium, they hardly ever notice Nadia as she enters and makes her way to a classical ballet studio beneath the bleachers. The ceiling trembles, the cheering fills the room, but the studio remains isolated from Jerusalem’s reality. A decade ago Nadia and her mother, Nina Timofeyeva, a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet, left Moscow for Jerusalem and set up the studio. It was a professional suicide. Ballet and football make for a surrealistic combination.