Joika
Sign in to saveJoika (alternative title The American) is a 2023 New Zealand–Polish drama about American ballerina Joy Womack training at the prestigious Moscow Bolshoi Theatre. It was written and directed by James Napier Robertson and stars Diane Kruger and Talia Ryder.
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6.8American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.
Released: 2023-11-02110 minDir: James Napier RobertsonDrama
Cast
- Talia Ryder as Joy Womack
- Diane Kruger as Tatiyana Volkova
- Oleg Ivenko as Nikolay Lebedev
- Natasha Alderslade as Eleanor Womak
- Natalia Osipova as Natalia Osipova
- Charlotte Ubben
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Key dates
- Published
- 2023
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- New Zealand
- Original language
- Russian
- Main subject
- Joy Womack
- Director
- James Napier Robertson
- Cast member
- Karolina Gruszka
- Producer
- Tom Hern
- Duration
- +110
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Joika (alternative title The American) is a 2023 New Zealand–Polish drama about American ballerina Joy Womack training at the prestigious Moscow Bolshoi Theatre. It was written and directed by James Napier Robertson and stars Diane Kruger and Talia Ryder.
==Plot== Fifteen-year old aspiring American ballerina Joy Womack is accepted into the prestigious Moscow Bolshoi Theatre. Womack has ambitions of becoming a Prima Ballerina at the Bolshoi Company. Womack and her fellow ballerinas train under the tutelage of Tatiyana Volkova, who is a strict and demanding instructor. During the course of her training, Womack develops a rivalry with a Russian girl named Natasha, who shares Womack's ambitions of becoming the academy's Prima Ballerina. Womack also befriends a Russian boy named Nikolay Lebedev.