Anna Pawlowa - Ein Leben für den Tanz

In my childhood I watched this film in the cinema and was fascinated by the strong spirit of the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova with her passion for complete dedication to the art of ballet.

The filming location of this film was at the Ivy House on North End Road, Golders Green, London where she lived for the rest of her life.

For a long time I had a dream to visit this place. And recently my dream came true when I visited her former home at the Ivy House to see the statue of Anna Pavlova sculpted in her honour in 2010 by Hampstead artist Tom Merrifield near the lake where she fed her swans like in the scene in this film!

I have watched lots and lots of movies during the communist (oh well, there was/is no such thing as communism, it was - is in china - just pure dictatorship) era, but just a hand of them impressed me as much as this one. I went to the theatre daily while it played there, and each and every time I was out of speech. Galina Belyaeva is out of this world in the movie, the director is great, and as much as I despise russians right now because of the war in Ukraine, I simply love this movie. I love it, I love it, I love it! I cannot understand why it is not popularized more, why it is not sold as DVD or whatever else more. I love ballet, but this movie is so much more than it!

I am Russian and I have a great love for Ballet, both watching it and performing. I only watched this movie once, and now wish to see it again.

This documentary is, on my scale, as good as Burnt by the Sun! And that's the highest on my scale!

This film , it can be said , is dedicated to artists all round the world. I saw this film in Russian language as I did not have the benefit of English sub-titles but in spite of that I fell in love with the film!!All the dancers who ever feel low can see this film and gain their confidence back.The movie shows that no matter whether she was tired or in pain , Anna Pavlova always danced and never disappointed her audiences. Her dedication to dance was unparalleled and those who want to take up dance as their career must start out only after watching this film.The music was haunting too. I wish Anna Pavlova was really the heroine of this film.

one of the lovely films from my childhood. its beauty, its status of introduction in the art of ballet, the first steps to great biography, its sadness and magic and dramas and solitude, success and pain, the life as scene and the Russian flavor, so unique and special and seductive. fragments of scenes. and the music.and the force of profound passion for an art who becomes the axis of her entire life. a film who remains special for me. out of any explanation. because each scene covers the dreams of each viewer from public. to do, to fight, to sacrifice. everything. for to do what you must do with all senses, with entire energy. a form of poem. Russian in profound sense. because the tenderness and the love and the new show and the time who becomes insignificant in the demonstration of her art are more than fascinating or touching. they are real.