The Dying Swan
Jan 17 1917
•1h 49m
•Drama
After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinely.
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Vera Karalli
Gizella Raccio
Aleksandr Kheruvimov
Gizella's Father Cherubino Raccio
Vitold Polonsky
Viktor Krasovsky
Andrey Gromov
Count Valerian Sergeevich Glinskiy
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