Ballets Russes
by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
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Actor: Alan Howard, Frederic Franklin, Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne CraigDirector: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Producer: Daniel Geller
Writer: Daniel Geller
Writer: Dayna Goldfine
Producer: Celeste Schaefer Snyder
Writer: Celeste Schaefer Snyder
Writer: Gary Weimberg
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
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Movie Review: Historic and biographic of Ballet Russes
Summary: 5 Stars
This was not a requested gift, but the recipient loved it. She is a dancer. I was a dancer and loved this film.
Summary of Ballets Russes
An intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists - now in their 70s 80s & 90s - who gave birth to modern ballet. Studio: Zeitgeist Films Release Date: 09/12/2006 Run time: 118 minutesPart history, part love letter, Ballets Russes may be the most purely delightful documentary in years. The movie follows the birth of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the early 1930s, an event that eventually led--after years of exhilarating experiments, bitter artistic battles, and exhausting tours--to the establishment of modern ballet around the world. Ballet Russes combines astonishing film footage of fantastical ballets (featuring extravagant sets designed by Salvador Dali and costumes by Henri Matisse) and interviews with surviving dancers in their 70s, 80s, and 90s (ranging from Dame Alicia Markova, who was a prima ballerina with the original Ballet Russe under impresario Sergei Diaghilev, to Yvonne Craig, who went on to become Batgirl in the '60s tv show Batman); the result is a breathtaking range of scholarship and depth of feeling. The heart of the film is the dancers themselves, who are sly, thoughtful, gossipy, and amazingly youthful in spirit--even the most difficult times are discussed with humor and honesty. Ballet fans will find this an essential document, while anyone who's never even thought of going to ballet will be completely caught up in these dancers' passion and wonder. A beautiful, entrancing movie. --Bret Fetzer
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