Underground Ballet

Lina Chaplin

Archive - Festival 35
Director: Lina Chaplin
Israel 2019
53 minutes
Hebrew, Russian
Subtitles in Hebrew, English

When fans of the football club of Beitar Jerusalem make their way to Teddy Stadium, they hardly ever notice Nadia as she enters and makes her way to a classical ballet studio beneath the bleachers. The ceiling trembles, the cheering fills the room, but the studio remains isolated from Jerusalem’s reality.

A decade ago Nadia and her mother, Nina Timofeyeva, a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet, left Moscow for Jerusalem and set up the studio. It was a professional suicide. Ballet and football make for a surrealistic combination.

Filmography: Eighty and Counting (2016), Paper Show (2002), Trumpet in the Vadi (2001).

Director Lina Chaplin
Production Daniela Reiss Razon
Script Lina Chaplin and Bracha Zisman Cohen
Cinematography Itzik Portal
Editing Bracha Zisman Cohen
Sound Design Rotem Dror
Music A. Glaznov, Ludwig Minkus, Adolf Adam, Tomazo Albinoni, dmitri shostakovich, A. Krane, Claude Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Boris Asspaiev,Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Cezar Antonowicz Cui, Giuseppe Verdi, Edvard Grieg, Phillip Glass, Alfred Snitke, Bock Jerry, Kirill Molchanov
Source Daniela Reiss Razon
Produced with support by Hot 8, the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv