Yolanda on AllMovie

Yolanda was a Mexican/US coproduction conceived in the spirit of the wartime "good neighbor" policy. The film's lugubrious storyline, set in 1909, concerns Russian ballerina Irina Baronova. She arrives in Mexico city to perform with the Ballet Theatre Troupe of NY (playing themselves). Political intrigues compel Irina to give herself sexually to several unsavory types. The sacrifice proves too much to bear, and the ballerina kills herself. Filmed on a $75,000 budget in 1943, Yolanda didn't find a US distributor until 1951.