Irina Lerman

Katia and Gala, the students of Chelyabinsk Institute of Culture, are going to an international festival to present their choreographic performance. The girls are quite sure that their contemporary performance will win over the sophisticated audience, so fame, a tour and the world of top art are just around the corner... There's only one little thing left to do, win the Grand-Prix of the festival!

Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose the ability to walk. Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet he envisaged long before but never staged for fear of failure. “What will I leave behind after I am gone?” is a question Aleksey feels he must contend with. However, returning to the world of ballet will not be easy for a man who has made so many enemies over the course of his life.

The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.