The Star from Outside - Ra Messerer (2007)

A portrait of Rachel Mikhailovna Messerer-Plisetskaya (1902-1993), better known as Ra Messerer, was a Russian stage and screen actress. She was born in Vilnius into the Lithuanian Jewish family, and graduated from Institute of Cinematography in 1925. She married the well-known Russian diplomat Mikhail Plisetski (1899-1938). They had three children: famous ballerina Maya Plisetskaya (1925-2015), talented ballet-master Alexander Plisetski (1931-1985) and principal dancer Azari Plisetski (1937-). In summer 1939, Rachel was transferred to the "Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland in Akmolinsk", which ended her artistic career.