Are You Going to the Ball Bonus Training Footage 1987 (Tatiana Groshkova, Marina Goryunova)

Tatiana Groshkova is seen practicing her floor routine to Concerto de Aranjuez, which she performed prior to her iconic floor routine in 1989-1992.
Marina Goryunova was the first gymnast to compete a full twisting double layout off of uneven bars in 1995.
Are You Going to the Ball? was made in 1987. It focuses on Elvira Saadi (former Olympic champion) and her gymnasts: Tatiana Groshkova, Tatiana Chernova, Marina Goryunova and Natalia Novozhilova. It also features former champions Ludmilla Tourischeva, Olga Korbut and Tamara Lazakovich; there's an interview with Aleftina Pryakhina as well.
Татьяна Грошкова 1987, Татьяна Чернова, Марина Горюнова и Наталья Новожилова
Are You Going to the Ball?, 28 min. (ты идешь на бал)
A Film by Nadezhda Khvorova
This is part of a series of 22 documentary films produced or released in the beginning of the "Glasnost Era" in the Soviet Union, 1986-1988. These independent films definitively document the historic cultural and political shifts that led to greater openness and the eventual demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.
"Looks at a young girls' gymnastics program and poignantly touches one of Soviet society's most delicate issues: what it will do to its children - to their futures, to their minds, to their bodies - to make them champions."
- New York Times
"A poignant expose of Soviet gymnastics. Girls too young to make informed choices about their lives are shown being pushed by parents and coaches into training that damages their bodies and neglects their minds."
- The Washington Post
"Disturbing...a study of how a group of very young girls is being trained to become gymnasts under strict conditions and with little apparent regard to the physical toll exacted of their bodies and to their lack of opportunity for a real education. Providing a by-and-large grim perspective on these children are such former champion athletes as Olga Korbut and Lyudmila Turischeva."
- Los Angeles Times
"Scathing portrayal of the Soviet gymnastics program, alternating sequences depicting the psychologically and physically brutal training of young female [athletes]"
- The Russian Review