Movie Details
Original Language:English
Shostakovich Bolt
Plot
Bolt Shostakovichs forbidden ballet which was never performed after its premiere in 1931 in a new scenic version by Alexei Ratmansky In 1931 the Moscow Art Theater commissioned the young national hero Dmitri Shostakovich aged just twentyfive to compose the music of a ballet that should according to the rules of the Socialist Realism depict and glorify the values of the USSR However after a first performance of the ballet Shostakovichs work composed to a book by Viktor Smirnov was suspected to be satirical and was immediately forbidden In 2006 Alexei Ratmansky created a new version for the Bolshoi Ballet This program is the first video recording of the ballet
