She Dances Alone(1981)

Name: She Dances Alone
Director: Robert Dornhelm
Genre: Drama
Released: 1981-01-01
Duration: 87 min
Cast: Kyra Nijinsky, Patrick Dupond, Max von Sydow, Sauncy LeSueur, Rosine Bena

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Kyra Nijinsky Patrick Dupond Max von Sydow Sauncy LeSueur Rosine Bena

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."