Sep 09, 1994
100 min
Full-HD

The Dancer (1994)

The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a special kind of artist to submit to the discipline and strenuous regimen needed to dance with a world-class company. Follows the young and gifted Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star.

Category

Documentary

Country

Sweden

Companies

SVT Drama Svenska Filminstitutet

Katja Björner

Erland Josephson

Anneli Alhanko

Clint Farha

Valentina Savina

Michael Messerer

Aleksandr Khmelnitskiy

Robert Cohan

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