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Flight of the Swan
Flight of the Swan
8.4
/10
14 Ratings

FLIGHT OF THE SWAN

Directed by Ngozi Onwurah
United Kingdom, 1992
Short

Synopsis

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a ‘black swan’.

Synopsis

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a ‘black swan’.