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."
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Cast
19 people
Kyra Nijinsky
Self
Patrick Dupond
Ballet dancer
Also in
Dancing Machine
L'Affaire Dominici
Robert Dornhelm
Also in
Network First
Secret Lives
Gustavo Santaolalla
Also in
The Last of Us
MTV Unplugged: Julieta Venegas
Jon Bradshaw
Federico De Laurentiis
Max von Sydow
Nijinsky (voice)
Known for
Shutter Island
Minority Report
Paul Davids
Marion Hunt
Sauncy LeSueur
Little Kyra
Earle Mack
Karl Kofler
Robert Dornhelm Director · Paul Davids Writer Jon Bradshaw Writer
United States release February 18, 1982 · Produced in Austria, United States
Production
DHD
Production
Austria · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
France · May 14, 1981
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
United States · February 18, 1982
Limited theatrical · New York City, New York
Austria
May 31, 1981 · Theatrical
Canada
September 19, 1981 · Premiere · Toronto Film Festival
Netherlands
June 13, 1984 · TV
Sweden
January 30, 1982 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
December 3, 1986 · TV
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