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The Ballerinas

Title
The Ballerinas [videorecording] / Polivideo-TVE Production ; producers, Joseph Wishy, Tazio Tami ; directors, Beppe Menegatti, Tazio Tami.
Publication
W. Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, c1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Fracci, Carla.
  • Ustinov, Peter.
Description
1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
A two-part ballet-drama that features Peter Ustinov and Carla Fracci in a series of dramatic vignettes highlighted with excerpts from classic ballets. Ustinov portrays Theophile Gautier in part I and Sergei Diaghilev in part II. Fracci acts and dances the roles of Marie Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, Carlotta Grisi, Emma Livry, Giuseppina Bozzacchi, Carlotta Brianza, Matilde Kschessinska, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, and Olga Spessitzeva.
Subject
  • Ballets > Excerpts
  • Ballet dancers > Biography
  • Dance videos
Genre/Form
  • Excerpts.
  • Video recordings.
Credits (note)
  • Script, Domenico DeMartino ; director of photography, Giuliano Giustini ; scenery and costumes, Luisa Spinatelli ; music recording by the Polish Radio National Orchestra of Katowice.
Performer (note)
  • Peter Ustinov, Carla Fracci with Vladimir Vassiliev, Richard Cragun, Charles Jude, Peter Schaufuss, Michael Denard, Stephen Jeffries, José Antonio and others.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
Contents
Part I. La Sylphide (1832) -- La Cachucha (1836) -- Giselle (1841) -- Le Papillon (1860) -- Coppelia (1870). Part II. Sleeping Beauty (1890) -- Esmeralda (1907) -- Les Sylphides (1909) -- La Farrucha (1919) --Sleeping Beauty (Rosa Adagio) (1921).
OCLC
  • ocm18403003
  • SCSB-1242539
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library