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Ode to Youth starring Marija Janković
Directed by Marcella Zanki · Starring Marija Jankovic · 2016
A 75-year-old ballerina, played by Yugoslav ballet icon Marija Janković, reflects on a life given entirely to dance.
A real ballet legend dances through memory and age in a graceful, poetic portrait.
Croation photographer and filmmaker Marcella Zanki’s short, starring Yugoslavian ballet icon Marija Janković and set to music made by composer Pasquale Riviezzo, tells the story of a 75-year-old ballerina who has danced
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