Production Design
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, enquanto a cidade de Perm, na Rússia, é evacuada por causa do conflito, o renomado compositor Aram Khatchadourian é encarregado de criar uma última peça musical para o famoso balé Gayane. No decorrer de apenas 8 horas, apesar do caos da evacuação e da severa censura soviética, ele consegue criar o que se tornaria a obra mais famosa de sua carreira.
Production Design
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.
