Théophile Gautier

Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madame Prascovie Labinska, a woman very faithful to her husband, the Polish count Olaf Labinski. Alarmed by the growing physical and mental weariness of the desperate young man, his relatives and friends decide to turn to Doctor Balthazar, who has just returned from a trip to the Indies where he was initiated into the secrets of Brahman.

A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the Egyptian embalmer done his work that the face is perfect in all its beauty, and the susceptible young man falls deeply in love with this belle of old Egypt, takes the mummy home to his estate in England and there it occupies his whole mind, to the exclusion of all else. Even the proposed visit of a beautiful American girl does not arouse his interest.

1979 production of the ballet classic starring Rudolf Nureyev and featuring the Bavarian State Ballet

Sergei Polunin and Diana Vishneva in Giselle. Original perfomance April 20, 2014 at STANMUS. (This recording is from the TV premiere broadcast on January 8th, 2024 on the Russian Culture Channel). Ballet by Adolphe Adam. Production by the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and VI.I Nemirovich-Danchenko. Conductor Anton Grishanin. (Russia, 2014).

Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madame Prascovie Labinska, a woman very faithful to her husband, the Polish count Olaf Labinski. Alarmed by the growing physical and mental weariness of the desperate young man, his relatives and friends decide to turn to Doctor Balthazar, who has just returned from a trip to the Indies where he was initiated into the secrets of Brahman.

A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the Egyptian embalmer done his work that the face is perfect in all its beauty, and the susceptible young man falls deeply in love with this belle of old Egypt, takes the mummy home to his estate in England and there it occupies his whole mind, to the exclusion of all else. Even the proposed visit of a beautiful American girl does not arouse his interest.

1979 production of the ballet classic starring Rudolf Nureyev and featuring the Bavarian State Ballet

Sergei Polunin and Diana Vishneva in Giselle. Original perfomance April 20, 2014 at STANMUS. (This recording is from the TV premiere broadcast on January 8th, 2024 on the Russian Culture Channel). Ballet by Adolphe Adam. Production by the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and VI.I Nemirovich-Danchenko. Conductor Anton Grishanin. (Russia, 2014).