Varicella
6.8
Seven-year-old Polina and her 13-year-old sister Nastia live and breathe ballet. Both of them are studying at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in frigid Saint Petersburg. They’re currently awaiting their grades to find out if they’ve done well enough to be promoted to the next year, with Nastia lovingly guiding he little sister through the process. But in the meantime, Nastia also has to deal with the high demands that the academy places on its students. The gorgeously styled shots are sometimes calm, even clinical, and sometimes warm, lively and funny.
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Cast
14 people
Viktor Kossakovsky Director · Ben Bernhard Cinematographer
United States release June 1, 2016 · Produced in Denmark, Norway, Sweden · Production Story AB, Final Cut for Real
Production
Sant & Usant
Production
Story AB
Production
Final Cut for Real
Production
Arte
Production
Denmark · Norway · Sweden
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Languages
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Italy · May 1, 2015
United States · June 1, 2016
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
Croatia
February 27, 2016 · Zagrebdox - International Documentary Film Festival
Cyprus
October 16, 2016 · International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
Denmark
November 2, 2016 · BUSTER - Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth
Finland
January 30, 2016 · DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
Israel
May 1, 2016 · DocAviv, Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
Netherlands
November 21, 2015 · Premiere · IDFA
South Korea
August 24, 2016 · Premiere · 2016 EIDF
Sweden
October 16, 2015 · Folketsbio
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