Pina

Feb 24, 2011

1h 46m

★ 7.3

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

Overview

Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

ZDF

Eurowide Film Production

ARTE

ZDFtheaterkanal

3sat

Neue Road Movies

Pina Trailers

Cast

Self

Regina Advento

Self

Malou Airaudo

Self

Ruth Amarante

Self (archive footage)

Pina Bausch

Self

Jorge Puerta

Self

Mechthild Großmann

Self

Rainer Behr

Self

Andrey Berezin

Self

Josephine Ann Endicott

Self

Helena Pikon

Self

Barbara Kaufmann

Lutz Förster

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