The Sleeping Beauty
Cast & Crew
Apollinariy Dudko
Alla Sizova
Yuriy, Dancer Solovyov
Natalya Dudinskaya
Irina Bazhenova
Vsevolod Ukhov
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Synopsis
Palace rejoicing at the christening of the infant Princess Aurora is disrupted by the unannounced appearance of Carabosse, The Wicked Fairy. She utters a curse over the cradle and predicts that the princess will die from a wound caused by pricking her finger. Fortunately, The Lilac Fairy has not yet made her gift, and she alters Aurora's fate by promising that instead of dying she will fall into a deep slumber. The Wicked Fairy again appears on the princess' 16th birthday, disguised as a kindly old woman, and causes Aurora to prick her finger on a knitting needle concealed in a bouquet. As Aurora falls asleep, The Lilac Fairy waves her magic wand and puts the entire kingdom to sleep. A hundred years later the kingdom has been overgrown by a black forest. Handsome Prince Désiré encounters The Lilac Fairy and receives through her a vision of the princess and of the palace where she lies sleeping. The Lilac Fairy summons her magic boat to carry the prince to the palace, and there he awakens the princess with a kiss. The entire kingdom stirs from its deep slumber and prepares the celebration of the royal wedding.
Cast
Alla Sizova
Yuriy, Dancer Solovyov
Natalya Dudinskaya
Irina Bazhenova
Vsevolod Ukhov
O. Zabotkina
Natalya Makarova
Valeriy Panov
V. Ryazanov
E. Minchenok
I. Korneyeva
L. Kovalyova
K. Fedicheva
N. Sakhnovskaya
G. Kekisheva
S. Kuznetsov
Sergey Vykulov
Kirov State Academic Theatre Corps De Ballet
Students Of The Vaganova Dancing School
Crew
A. Bekker
J. Jay Frankel
V. Gamaliya
B. Khaykin
Kirov State Academic Theatre Orchestra
M. Krotkin
Anatoliy Nazarov
Douglas Netter
Marius Petipa
N. Pokoptsev
Konstantin Sergeyev
Konstantin Sergeyev
Iosif Shapiro
A. Sokolov
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
V. Ulitko
T. Vasilkovskaya
Ye. Yakuba
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Notes
Released in the U.S.S.R. in 1964 in Kinopanorama as Spyashchaya krasavitsa; running time: ca97 min.
