Dolly

Tanya is a brilliant gymnast. Selected while still a small child to be given the training needed to be an international champion, she grows up in an atmosphere of tense and unfriendly rivalry, arrogance and a desire to win at all costs. Disaster strikes at the age of fourteen when an injury brings her career to an end and she is shunted off into the normal world. A controversial and powerful drama about the Soviet system of making and breaking sporting champions. Based on a story by Igor Ageev.

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Credits

production company

Mosfilm

director

Isaac Fridberg

writer

Igor Ageev

Duration

02:11:00:00

Production places

Soviet Union

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

325143

Language

Russian

Audience classification

PG

Subject categories

Adaptations

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Soviet Union

Foreign language films

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Gymnastics

Literature → Russian literature - Film and video adaptations

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Soviet Union, 1988

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