Ballerina (1937)

Original title

La Mort du Cygne

Directed by

Marie Epstein, Jean Benoit-Lévy

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 12-year-old girl is obsessed with a dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet. She fears a Russian ballerina will replace her favorite performer, so she plans to cause the rival to have an accident.

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What happens

Ballerina is a 1937 French ballet film directed by Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein, starring Yvette Chauviré, Mia Slavenska and Janine Charrat. The original title is La Mort du cygne, the French title for Michel Fokine’s short ballet piece The Dying Swan. It tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who fears that her favourite performer at the Paris Opera Ballet will be replaced by a Russian ballerina, and sets out to engineer an accident for the rival. The film is based on the 1933 short story "La Mort du cygne" by Paul Morand. The choreography was done by Serge Lifar. The film was remade in the United States as The Unfinished Dance, released in 1947. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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