Adolescence is a 1966 French short documentary film directed by Marin Karmitz, about the teenage students of a famed ballet teacher. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Director: Marin Karmitz, Vladimir Forgency
Writers: Agnès Van Parys, Vladimir Forgency
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Maybe it was the dimly lit style of photography or perhaps the elderly, bescarfed, ballet coach who could readily have been called “Madame Suzatska”, but I thought that this had the look of a communist-era Eastern European documentary to it as we follow the teenage Sonia Petrovna…
