Vaslav Nijinsky

Label Année France-Russie 2012

Nijinsky star of the stars of ballet dancing achieves a lighting like career before falling into madness. Diaghilev his wild manager having  always refused to let the russian ballets beeing filmed, only a few sill photographs remain from Nijinsky.

For nearly a century a crazy legend spread pretending that several extracts from these ballets would have been secretly filmed by Charlie Chaplin and seen in China or Russia or even south America.

But no need now to unfold this treasure as Nijinsky had managed to synthesize his ballets within the poses from his photographs.

The lost film is now revealed.

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