---
title: 'Ballerina (1937)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jean Benoit-Lévy'
released: '1937-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 100
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ballerina-1937'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143749/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Ballerina (1937)

1937 · 100 min · Drama · France

Original title: La Mort du cygne

## Synopsis

Ballerina is a 1937 French ballet film directed by Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein, starring Yvette Chauviré, Mia Slavenska and Janine Charrat. The original title is La Mort du cygne, the French title for Michel Fokine’s short ballet piece The Dying Swan. It tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who fears that her favourite performer at the Paris Opera Ballet will be replaced by a Russian ballerina, and sets out to engineer an accident for the rival.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jean Benoit-Lévy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-benoit-levy), [Marie Epstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-epstein)
- **Director of Photography:** [Léonce-Henri Burel](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonce-henri-burel)

## Cast

- [Yvette Chauviré](https://cinepixo.com/people/yvette-chauvire)

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