A new film probes the shocking assault on Sergei Filin, ballet director at Russia's historic company, and sheds light on a toxic story of rivalry and state meddlingFrom 2013 to 2014, a small film crew was allowed unprecedented access to the Bolshoi ballet company, partly to tell the story of the shocking acid attack on its artistic director, Sergei Filin, in January 2013, but also to probe the background to that even…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AM on January 4, 2016