When the Bolshoi Ballet took a hit following the 2013 acid attack on the company's artistic director and former dancer Sergei Filin, it was hard to recover in the public eye. For filmmaker and director Nick Read, it became the center focus of his latest documentary Bolshoi Babylon and proved to be an aid in discerning the facts. It also unveiled the political interference and scandal that encapsulates the Bolshoi both in its dancers and in management.
Sergei Filin, artistic director, was maimed in the 2013 attack, in which acid blinded one of his eyes and scarred his face. But, it's unclear as to the motives of the attacker and who staged the incident. All sources point to Pavel Dimitrichenko, who was found guilty in a trial and who the film indicts as the mastermind. But the film's only glancing insight into the theatre may ask more questions than it has answers.
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