She Dances Alone

Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alterego purposes in She Dances Alone Cort plays a documentary director seeking to produce a film on the life of controversial ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky He finds his goal of objectivity blocked by Nijinskys elderly reallife daughter Kyra who is as stocky as her father was sylphlike Kyras uncompromising insistence on total control over the project literally shapes and frequently distorts the film before our eyes Adding to the Pirandellian atmosphere of the Australianproduced She Dances Alone is Max Von Sydow also playing himself