Underground Ballet

Underground Ballet

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 15, 2019

Runtime

0h 53m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

אנדרגראונד בלט

Production Companies

Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project

Director

Lena Chaplin

Description

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.