A Belated Premiere

A Belated Premiere (2004) is a documentary, animation film directed by Victor Bocharov.

A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Archive materials that date back to 1906 reveal his bold experiments at stop-motion and paper animation.

Cast

Ivan Krasko

Self - Narrator (voice)

Valentina Panina

Self - Narrator (voice)

Alexander Shiryaev

Self (archive footage)