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Flight of the Swan

7.0/10

October 9, 1992

11 minutes

Ngozi Onwurah

Drama

Overview

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'.

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Movie Details

Release Date

October 9, 1992

Runtime

11 minutes

Director

Ngozi Onwurah

Rating

7.0/10

Production Companies

Channel 4 Television

Cast

Hilja Lindsay Parkinson

Obe Kanayo

Wumni Olaiya

African Spirit

Charlotte Moore

Mrs. Mortimer

Laura Penta

Sarah

Rowena Meddeman

Bully