Maria Abashova

Film version of Boris Eifman’s ballet, set to music by Beethoven and Mahler, which has been successfully performed on stage for more than twenty years. The choreographer turns to Paul I, one of the most enigmatic figures in Russian history. Confining the production’s timeline to his time as heir to the throne, Eifman depicts Paul’s fate as the tragic confrontation between an extraordinary yet emotionally fragile personality and a hostile world.

The Brothers Karamazov novel is the epitome of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s creative work, the acme of the philosophic investigation carried out by this colossal and restless mind throughout his life. World renowned choreographer Boris Eifman offers a remarkable vision of the core ideas within the novel, expanding upon them though body language as a way of exploring the origins of the moral devastation of the Karamazovs; creating through choreographic art an equivalent of what Dostoyevsky investigated so masterfully in his book, the excruciating burden of destructive passions and evil heredity. This ballet production is also known and performed as Beyond Sin.