
Directing
Boris Eifman
Born
1946-07-22 (80)
Place of birth
Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai, USSR, (now Russia)
Known for
Directing
Credits
10 titles
Boris Eifman (Борис Яковлевич Эйфман; born 22 July 1946) is a Russian choreographer and artistic director. He has done more than fifty ballet productions. Eifman was born in Rubtsovsk, Siberia, where his engineer father had been assigned to work in a tank factory. In 1953, the family moved to Kishinev, Moldavia. Eifman graduated from the Kishinev Ballet School in 1964. He performed as a dancer with the Kishinev Opera and Ballet Theatre; and went on to study choreography at the Leningrad Conservatory, where his teacher was choreographer Georgi Aleksidze. Eifman graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1972. He then became a ballet master at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, from 19…
Known for
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Le monde est à vous
1987
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.
Russian Hamlet
2025
NRThis film-concert is a ballet based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, set to the music of Symphony No. 6 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and featuring artists from the State Theatre of Modern Ballet.
The Idiot
1987
5.0The 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.
Eifman Ballet: The Brothers Karamazov
2016
4.8An actress needs to dub her voice after the production of her movie has wrapped. At the same time, she is facing a life crisis that alters her plans: just released from the hospital, she realizes that her illness is more than she can emotionally handle. Overwhelmed, she has to look at the simple task of dubbing from a completely new perspective.
The Voice
1982
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Опасные танцы
2018
Film credits
2010s · 1 titles
Series credits
Behind the camera
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.
Russian Hamlet
2025
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.
Russian Hamlet
2025
NRThis film-concert is a ballet based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, set to the music of Symphony No. 6 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and featuring artists from the State Theatre of Modern Ballet.
The Idiot
1987
NRThis film-concert is a ballet based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, set to the music of Symphony No. 6 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and featuring artists from the State Theatre of Modern Ballet.
The Idiot
1987
5.0The 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.
Eifman Ballet: The Brothers Karamazov
2016
NRBrother and sister accidentally find themselves at a modern street ballet performance. They are so fascinated by the plot that, forgetting that they are at a performance, they climb onto the stage and find themselves in a fairyland.
Twelfth Night, or As You Like It
1985
NRBrother and sister accidentally find themselves at a modern street ballet performance. They are so fascinated by the plot that, forgetting that they are at a performance, they climb onto the stage and find themselves in a fairyland.
Twelfth Night, or As You Like It
1985
