Riot at the Rite(2005)

Riot at the Rite is a drama centered on the legendary 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at a new Paris theater. Impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes faces chaos during rehearsals: the orchestra rejects Stravinsky's dissonant score, dancers balk at Vaslav Nijinsky's unconventional choreography, and tension simmers between the volatile Nijinsky and the manipulative Diaghilev. Expectations run high after Nijinsky's recent triumph in L'après-midi d'un faune. When the avant-garde ballet finally opens to Paris's fashion-obsessed, gossip-hungry society, the audience fractures into passionate supporters and fierce detractors. The film captures the artistic ambition, personal friction, and cultural upheaval surrounding one of modernism's most transformative moments.