The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades (2007)

Actors: Terry Jones (actor), Timothy Spall (actor), Tim McInnerny (actor), Jan Kuzelka (actor), Kenneth Cranham (actor), Wolf Kahler (actor), William Hootkins (actor), Philip Davis (actor), Nickolas Grace (actor), Harry Enfield (actor), Sean Patrick Flanery (actor), Harry Fowler (actor), Bernard Bresslaw (actor), Liz Smith (actress), Danny Webb (actor),

Plot: May 1917. Sixteen year old Indiana Jones joins an international trio of spies plotting against their German counterparts in the neutral city of Barcelona. After his old acquaintance Pablo Picasso helps him get a job at Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Indy devices a plan to forge a love letter written by the German cultural attaché to make it seem he is having an affair with the Countess of Toledo. In August of the same year, Indiana is reassigned to Prague where he is to receive an important phone call. Unfortunately his hotel room proves to be unequipped with a phone. Indy heads for the Ministery of Telephones, where he learns that having to confront Czech bureaucracy can be quite a trial.

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Riot at the Rite (2005)

Actors: Steve Pemberton (actor), Griff Rhys Jones (actor), Peter Copley (actor), Andre Schneider (actor), Richard Hope (actor), William Diver (editor), Ross MacGibbon (producer), David Snodin (producer), Alex Jennings (actor), Peter Maniura (producer), Hilary Salmon (producer), Jonathan Aris (actor), Sara Dee (actress), Adam Garcia (actor), Alex Argenti (actress),

Plot: In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky's harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the 'ugly' choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is in a strained relationship with the much older Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes' charismatic but manipulative impresario. Public expectation is extremely high after Nijinsky's success in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune'. Finally, 'The Rite of Spring' premieres to a gossip-loving, febrile, fashion-conscious Parisian audience sharply divided as to its merits.

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Anna Pavlova (1983)

Actors: Michael Powell (producer), Evgeniy Doga (composer), Natalya Fateeva (actress), Sergey Shakurov (actor), Viktor Sergachyov (actor), Anatoli Romashin (actor), Jacques Debary (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Bruce Forsyth (actor), Vsevolod Safonov (actor), Vsevolod Larionov (actor), James Fox (actor), Igor Dmitriev (actor), Michael Powell (editor), Martin Scorsese (actor),

Plot: The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina 'Anna Pavlova (I)' (qv). She became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Dyaghilev's Ballet in Paris and in London. Anna Pavlova eventually formed her own troupe. She made a successful world tour together with Viktor d'Andre, who was her husband and manager.

Nijinsky (1980)

Actors: Ronald Lacey (actor), William Reynolds (editor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Siân Phillips (actress), Alan Bates (actor), Harry Saltzman (producer), Herbert Ross (director), Jeremy Irons (actor), Ronald Pickup (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), June Brown (actress), Frederick Jaeger (actor), Janet Suzman (actress), Hugh Wheeler (writer),

Plot: Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes. The company is managed by the famous Sergei Diaghilev, himself a controlling and fiercely possessive impresario. The increasing tension between these powerful egos, exacerbated by homosexual desire and jealousy, becomes triangular when the young ballerina Romola de Pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable Nijinsky away from Diaghilev,

Nijinsky: Unfinished Project (1970)

Actors: Albert R. Broccoli (producer), Harry Saltzman (producer), Tony Richardson (director), Claude Jade (actress), Rudolf Nureyev (actor), Paul Scofield (actor), Edward Albee (writer),