Nights of Farewell

The story

Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer. He doesn't know that his life will develop both happily and dramatically, and his work will be the glory and pride of Russian ballet.

Cast & crew

Gilles SégalMarius Petipa

Oleg StrizhenovPyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky

Jacques FerrièreAnton Minkh

Natalya VelichkoMashenka Surovshchikova-Petipa

Nikolai CherkasovGedeonov

Nikolay TrofimovPetrov

Gennadiy NilovLev Ivanov

Alla LarionovaLyubov Leonidovna

Vladislav StrzhelchikNicholas I of Russia

Yelena Sokolova

Yelena SokolovaKatenka

Pierre BertinPetipa's Father

Alexandre RignaultBigornet