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Ballerina
Film / 1956

Ballerina

Directed by G.W. Pabst
Drama

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.

The story

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.

Cast

Willy BirgelProfessor Förster Elisabeth MüllerBettina Sanden Ivan DesnyKostja Tomkoff, Choreograph Carl WeryDr. Brinkmann Erich PontoSchimanski Leonard SteckelOpernintendant Eva KerblerIrene Gerwig Hermann SpeelmansHerr Kalborn Ellen Frank Heino Hallhuber Jaspar von Oertzen Edward Tierney
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Johannes BuzalskiArzt Maxim Hamel Elisabeth Wischert Liselotte Berker Ursula Wolff Art BlakeyJazzmusiker Gusti Kreissl Fritz Lafontaine Pia von Rüden

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