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Stravinsky: Once at a Border...

0.0 166 mins Documentary   Music   TV Movie   1982
Isolde Films  
Director(s): Tony Palmer

Release Date: 01 Fri, Jan 1982

This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before. Stravinsky's three surviving children talk about their father and there are contributions from the late Madame Vera Stravinsky, his music associate Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, Balanchine, Nadia Boulanger and many friends. Included in the film are important performances: Les Noces has never before been heard in this, its original form, and the choreography of Petrushka was specially recreated for the film by the Bolshoi and was not seen in this form since 1911. Finally, there is priceless film of Stravinsky himself in this unique film.

Casts of Stravinsky: Once at a Border...

Nadia Boulanger

as Self

Robert Craft

as Self

Kyra Nijinsky

as Self

Marie Rambert

as Self

Igor Stravinsky

as Self (archive footage)

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