Sergei Prokofiev Movies

Sergei Prokofiev's setting of the fairy tale "Cinderella" premiered at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater in 1945. In 1986, Rudolf Nureyev, then ballet...

Documentary made for the 60th anniversary of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein.

Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella’s life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious...

The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many...

Two young lovers, offspring of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, value feelings above the past, pitting love and forgiveness against hatred...

In this 10-minute study the fi lm crew tries to get to the secrets of one of the wildest branches of experimental medicine.

A brilliant, bright, festive work by Inessa Kovalevskaya. Children, themselves like little bell-flowers, find themselves in a huge, rainbow-colored...

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two...

Anna Rose O'Sullivan and Marcelino Sambé star in this 20th-century ballet masterpiece, brought to life by Prokofiev’s ravishing score...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, is intertwined with the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the...

Given its premiere by The Royal Ballet in 1965 with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing the title roles, Kenneth MacMillan's first full-evening...

An animated film with a New Year's plot, created using the oil painting method. Against the backdrop of winter nature, birds come to life and become...

Carlos Acosta dances as one of the two star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare's timeless tragedy, presented with the classic Kenneth MacMillan...

A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the...

The charismatic and inspiring Claudio Abbado and the mesmerising young pianist Yuja Wang, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, hold the audience...

The Prince, suffering from melancholy, embarks on a dangerous and fascinating journey in search of three oranges. In one of the oranges, he finds his...

Shakespeare's heartbreaking tale, Nureyev's blazing ballet. Sumptuous costumes and sets transport you to Renaissance Verona, its piazza bustling...