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The ballerinas

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 (French poet, writer and ballet critic) in part I and Sergei Diaghilev (Russian ballet impresario) 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

DVD Video, English, 2013