She Dances Alone

1981 87 min

Overview

Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to produce a film on the life of controversial ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky. He finds his goal of objectivity blocked by Nijinsky's elderly real-life daughter Kyra, who is as stocky as her father was sylph-like. Kyra's uncompromising insistence on total control over the project literally shapes (and frequently distorts) the film before our eyes. Adding to the Pirandellian atmosphere of the Australian-produced She Dances Alone is Max Von Sydow, also playing "himself."

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

Austria
United States of America

Spoken Languages

English en

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Cast

Kyra Nijinsky

Herself

Patrick Dupond

Himself, a ballet dancer

Max von Sydow

Nijinsky's voice

Sauncy LeSueur

Little Kyra

Rosine Bena

Jeanette Etheridge

Franco DeAlto

Laura Hoover

Little Ballerina

Walter Kent

psychiatrist

Bud Cort

film director

Crew

Robert Dornhelm

Director

Gustavo Santaolalla

Music

Karl Kofler

Cinematography

Paul Davids

Writer

Jon Bradshaw

Writer

Robert Dornhelm

Producer

Posters

External Links

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