"Steps to greatness take you to the edge."

2023

1h 50m

6.8(77 votes)

Drama

Overview

American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.

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Cast & Crew

38 members

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Talia Ryder

Joy Womack

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Diane Kruger

Tatiyana Volkova

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Oleg Ivenko

Nikolay Lebedev

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Natasha Alderslade

Eleanor Womak

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Natalia Osipova

Production

Charlotte Ubben

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Borys Szyc

Andrei Vadys

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Tomasz Kot

Vitaliy Ivanov

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Karolina Gruszka

Valeriya Lebedev

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Martin Hugh Henley

Clay Womack

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Ewa Rodart

Bartender

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Tamiła Dudnik

Katya

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Martyna Wrzesińska

Nadia

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Weronika Juchimiuk

Alyona

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Julia Bielska

Diana

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Zuzanna Burak

Daria

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Zuzanna Rutkowska

Olga

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Marta Makurat

Polina

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Izabella Grzyberk

Kira

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Dominik Mironiuk

Popov

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Dariusz Majchrzak

teacher of a male class

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Anita Poddębniak

nurse

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Bartosz Jakubowski

pianist

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Andrzej Kłak

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Wojciech Urbański

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Edyta Torhan

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Kamil Studnicki

Fedor

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Marek Kasprzyk

guest on the wedding

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Sylwester Piechura

Ivanov's assistant

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Robert Gulaczyk

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Arkadiusz Brykalski

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Maciej Nawrocki

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Kristóf Szabó

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Andrzej Andrzejewski

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Adam Turczyk

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Jakub Kozakiewicz

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Ewa Rodart

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Patrycja Volny

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