a year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 a section Competitive selection Out of competition Fipatel a category Drama Series and Serials Creative Documentaries Reportage and Current Affairs Performing Arts Short Programs

This documentary gives an eye-opening view to the past and to early contributions of significant artists from the last century. The four Emperors: the composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), the choreographer George Balanchine (1904-1983), the painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and the entrepreneur Serge de Diaghilev (1872-1929) and his Ballets Russes. The lost ballet: Le Chant du Rossignol, based on a fairytale of H.C.Andersen, created in 1925, and reconstructed in 1999 by two English dancers Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, and performed by the Ballets de Monte-Carlo. The Nightingale: the English ballerina Dame Alicia Markova, now 92 years old, who danced the role of the nightingale in 1925 in Monte-Carlo and Paris, when she was 14 years old, and still remembers every step of her solo from that time. Finally the expert witnesses who have died but still survive in interviews, filmed in the sixties and seventies: Igor Stravinsky, George Balanchine, his first wife Tamara Geva, the secretary of Diaghilev, Boris Kochno and the composer and entrepreneur Nicolas Nabokov.

Netherlands - 2002 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Wilbert Bank Script Wilbert Bank Camera Peter Lataster Sound Harold Jalving Editing Peter Rump

Production Alexander van der Meer Film & Television, Alexander van der Meer, Prinsengracht 215, 1015 DT Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Tél : + 31 20 423 0766 Fax : + 31 20 4230 6768 E-mail : alexcpm@wanadoo.nl Co-Production Avro Television, Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep

Sales Alexander van der Meer Film & Television, Prinsengracht 215, 1015 DT Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Tél : + 31 20 423 0766 Fax : + 31 20 4230 6768 E-mail : alexcpm@wanadoo.nl