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7.2In 1879 Paris, a young orphan dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Cast
- Elle Fanning as Felicie (voice)
- Dane DeHaan as Victor (voice)
- Nat Wolff as Victor (US version)
- Carly Rae Jepsen as Odette (voice)
- Maddie Ziegler as Camille Le Haut (voice)
- Mel Brooks as Luteau (US version)
Themes
- opera
- dance
- paris, france
- flying
- inventor
- life's dream
- ballet
- orphan
- statue of liberty
- eiffel tower, paris
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Éric Summer Éric Warin
- Written by
- Éric Summer Laurent Zeitoun Carol Noble
- Produced by
- Laurent Zeitoun Yann Zenou Nicolas Duval Adassovsky André Rouleau Valérie d'Auteuil
- Starring
- Elle Fanning Dane DeHaan Maddie Ziegler Carly Rae Jepsen
- Cinematography
- Jericca Cleland
- Edited by
- Yvann Thibaudeau
- Music by
- Klaus Badelt
- Production company
- L'Atelier Animation
- Distributed by
- Entertainment One (Canada) Gaumont (France)
- Release dates
- 19 October 2016 ( 2016-10-19 ) ( Paris ) 14 December 2016 ( 2016-12-14 ) (France) 24 February 2017 ( 2017-02-24 ) (Canada)
- Running time
- 89 minutes
- Countries
- Canada France
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $ 30 million
- Box office
- $109.6 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Ballerina (titled Leap! in the United States) is a 2016 3D animated musical adventure comedy film co-directed by Éric Summer and Éric Warin and written by Summer, Carol Noble and Laurent Zeitoun. A co-production between Canadian and French companies, the film takes place in 1880s France and follows an orphan girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina and gets a chance to audition for the celebrated school of the Paris Opera Ballet.
Ballerina stars the voices of Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Maddie Ziegler and Carly Rae Jepsen. The film was released in cinemas in France and the United Kingdom on 12 December 2016, followed by releases in various countries over the following several months, including Canada on 24 February 2017. The film was released in the United States on 25 August 2017, with the voices of Nat Wolff (who replaced DeHaan), Kate McKinnon and Mel Brooks added. Ballerina received generally mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, grossing $109.6 million worldwide against a $30 million budget.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ballerina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.