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The Red Shoes
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
1948 · Directed by Michael Powell · 133 min · Drama · Romance · 58 frames
Tagline
Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!
Crew
- Written by: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
- Cinematography: Jack Cardiff
- Edited by: Reginald Mills
- Music: Brian Easdale
- Production design: Hein Heckroth
- Produced by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast
- Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov
- Marius Goring as Julian Craster
- Moira Shearer as Victoria Page
- Robert Helpmann as Ivan Boleslawsky
- Léonide Massine as Grischa Ljubov
- Albert Bassermann as Sergei Ratov
- Ludmilla Tchérina as Irina Boronskaja
- Esmond Knight as Livy
- Jean Short as Terry
- Gordon Littmann as Ike
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: Russian, English, French
- Studios: The Archers
- Budget: $500,000
- Box office: $10,000,000
- Themes: dance, new love, london, england, dance performance, composer, ballet dancer, ballet, red shoes, music, composing
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