A teenage gymnast is forced to leave Kyiv as violence breaks out in Ukraine, making it difficult to focus on her Olympic dreams, in Elie Grappe's timely debut. If all the bad news from that corner of ...

Elie Grappe’s quietly poignant film about a young gymnast finds her torn between her passion and the violence gripping her country — in 2013. By Austin Considine When you purchase a ticket for an ...

French writer-director Elie Grappe’s debut feature, “Olga,” co-written with Raphaëlle Desplechin, uses a unique lens to examine the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution, the protests that rocked Kyiv and sent ...

St. Olga, princess of Kiev, was so vengeful, so hate-filled, so bloody-minded she would have scared Attila the Hun. But her grandson was worse. Olga (c. 879-969; feast day July 11) and her husband ...

Pablo Picasso, “Portrait d’Olga dans un fauteuil” (1918), oil on canvas, 130 x 88.8 cm (collection of Musée national Picasso-Paris, ©RMN-Grand Palais / Mathieu Rabeau) (all images courtesy of Musée ...

In a couple of months, we will be saturated with Olympic feel-good stories. That’s a big part of why television networks pay enormous sums for the rights to telecast the Games. They call these ...

She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron curtain. By Frank Litsky Olga Fikotova Connolly, ...