She Dances Alone (1981)
87 min
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."
- Release date
- May 31, 1981
- Country of origin
- Austria, United States
Cast
- Kyra Nijinsky as Self
- Bud Cort as Director
- Patrick Dupond as Dancer
- Max von Sydow as Nijinsky
- Sauncy LeSueur as Little Kyra
- Rosine Bena as Ballerina
- Jeanette Etheridge as Girlfriend
- Franco DeAlto as Patient
- Laura Hoover as Little Ballerina
- Walter Kent as Doctor
Crew
- Robert Dornhelm · Director
- Jon Bradshaw · Writer
- Paul Davids · Writer
- Federico De Laurentiis · Producer
- Earle Mack · Producer
- Gustavo Santaolalla · Composer
- Karl Kofler · Cinematographer
- Tina Frese · Editor