Carla

Carla

Description Carla (DVD) - dvd - Alessandra Mastronardi, Stefano Rossi Giordani, Euridice Axen^Alessandra Mastronardi, Stefano Rossi Giordani, Euridice Axen Synopsis Lombard countryside, 1944. Under the sky furrowed by bombers, a little girl finds comfort in the quiet flight of a dragonfly dancing in the wind above a stream. Twenty-six years later, that little girl has become the icon of Italian ballet. She is Carla Fracci, acclaimed throughout the world. She crosses Milan in a taxi to meet her friend and dance partner Rudolf Nureyev, who proposes to bring Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker back to the stage at La Scala. The challenge seems impossible: only five days until the ballet's premiere and a very tough choreography for Carla's body, stopped for over a year due to the birth of her son Francesco. No ballerina before her has returned to dancing at high levels after a pregnancy. But Nureyev doesn't take no for an answer and Carla doesn't back down. Thus begins the countdown that marks the rehearsals of Carla and Nureyev, which alternate, as a frame of the story, with the main moments of Fracci's life. The story of courage and self-denial of the most famous and applauded Italian star in the world.