Movie
Polina
Overview
Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...
Details
- Release date
- 2016-11-16
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- UGC Films, Everybody on Deck, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels
- Country
- France
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Anastasia Shevtsova as Polina
- Juliette Binoche as Liria Elsaj
- Niels Schneider as Adrien
- Miglen Mirtchev as Anton
- Aleksey Guskov as Bojinski
- Kseniya Kutepova as Natalia
- Bakhtiyar Askarov as Caucasien
- Jérémie Bélingard as Karl
- Sergio Díaz
- Gennadiy Fomin as Eldar
- Elef Zack as Mat
- Jean-Charles Dumay as Alain
Crew
- Valérie Müller - Director
- Angelin Preljocaj - Director
- Valérie Müller - Writer
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