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Nutcracker (1982)
Director: Anwar Kawadri
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Collins, Britain's most durable nutcracker, plays the head of an international ballet company; an unlikely establishment, more suggestive of a discreet casino or hairdressing salon than anything terpsichorean, but lending itself nicely to a handful of desultory shower scenes and the machine-washable eroticism of Lycra and leg warmers. Nicholas plays a leather-jacketed photo-journalist out to scoop a shot of a defecting Russian dancer (Hughes) who has holed up at Madame C's...but the minutiae of the plot are, to put it kindly, elusive.Author: JS
Cast & crew
Director: Anwar Kawadri
Producer: Panos Nicolaou
Cast: Joan Collins, Carol White, Paul Nicholas, Finola Hughes, William Franklyn, Leslie Ash, Murray Melvin, Anna Bergman full cast
Duration: 101 mins
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