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Flight of the Swan

Flight of the Swan

★ 7.0/10•1992•11m•Drama
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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'.

Ngozi Onwurah · Director

Ngozi Onwurah · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime11m
LanguageEN
Release DateOct 9, 1992

Actors

Hilja Lindsay Parkinson

Obe Kanayo

Wumni Olaiya

African Spirit

Charlotte Moore

Mrs. Mortimer

Laura Penta

Sarah

Rowena Meddeman

Rowena Meddeman

Bully

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