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Director:
Jean Negulesco
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Release Date:
16 May 1942 (USA) more
Genre:
Short | Music more
Plot:
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo perform a ballet to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol." | add synopsis
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Rimsky-Korsakov's Spanish caprice (Massine) more

Cast

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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo ... Ballet dancers
Léonide Massine ... Dancer
Tamara Toumanova ... Dancer
Alexandra Danilova ... Dancer
Frederic Franklin ... Dancer
Nathalie Krassovska ... Dancer
Andre Eglevsky ... Dancer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
19 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #7683)

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Vitaphone production reels #A622-A623 more
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Referenced in Ballets russes (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Capriccio Espagnol more

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Rimsky-Korsakov's Spanish caprice (Massine), 31 May 2004
Author: Christopher Mulrooney from Los Angeles

Massine's Capriccio Espagnol, which premiered not long before this film was made, is generally considered to be a work of little significance. This is partly because it is incorrectly performed, no doubt, and partly because its unusually compressed and insinuating style has caused it to be overlooked. Hence this film is invaluable to an understanding of it, even among the experts. The crucial masterwork (after Parade) is Le Tricorne with its Spanish dancing studied from a practitioner.

La Argentinita herself is called in to effect a surprise in the choreography and give it the imprimatur of the Madrid Ballet. In the midst of all the flamenco-style drama (Massine crossly waggles his stick at Toumanova as she passes the hat round the plaza, shows him its contents, then deposits them in her bosom before they dance a sinuous duet, slowly drawing the townspeople in), a dancer leaps onto the stage and inspires a bit of folk dancing that might be from anywhere but comes from Spain. This whole finale exhibits Massine's skill in creating complex ensembles that seem to coalesce unknowingly out of idleness or chaos.

With this company, there is even a bit of history. Rimsky-Korsakov at first didn't want his Scheherazade danced to, and here is Massine continuing a tradition Fokine established.

Also Toumanova, who is the Soviet ballerina in Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, expressing precisely the spirit of Rimsky's Spanish caprice.

As a great cinéaste once wrote, "every film is a day of fiesta in the world's eternity."

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