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She Dances Alone (1981)
Directed by Robert Dornhelm
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.”
Length 87 minutes
Actors
Max von Sydow | Bud Cort | Patrick Dupond | Kyra Nijinsky | Sauncy LeSueur | Rosine Bena | Jeanette Etheridge | Franco DeAlto | Laura Hoover | Walter Kent