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The dancer upstairs Fox Searchlight Pictures and Lolafilms present ; a Mr. Mudd production ; a film by John Malkovich ; produced by Andrés Vicente Gómez and John Malkovich ; directed by John Malkovich
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Latin America.
- Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-.
- Police.
- Ballet dancers.
- Terrorists.
- Genre:
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 13 min., 9 sec.)) sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Madrid, Spain] [Lolafilms] [2001]
- Language Note:
- English or Spanish with optional closed captioning in English
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- "A political drama set in a Latin American country entrenched in revolutionary chaos, THE DANCER UPSTAIRS marks John Malkovich s directorial debut. Javier Bardem plays a policeman charged with finding the legendary guerilla leader who is planning to overthrow the corrupt government. The teacher of his daughter s ballet class, played by Laura Morante, provides his only solace from an empty marriage and the war into which he has been thrust'-- From Criterion on-Demand
- Participant:
- Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante, Elvira Mínguez, Oliver Cotton, Natalia Dicenta
- Credits:
- Costume design, Bina Daigeler ; production designer, Pierre-François Limbosh ; editor, Mario Battistel ; original music, Alberto Iglesias ; director of photography, José Luis Alcaine ; screenplay by Nicholas Shakespeare
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2002
- Based on a novel by Nicholas Shakespeare
- Online resource; title from title frame (Criterion on-Demand; viewed July 16, 2025)
- OCLC:
- 1158606617
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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