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The Red Shoes

Cast

Moira Shearer, Adolf Wohlbr�ck, Marius Goring, L�onide Massine View All

Crew

Emeric Pressburger (Screenplay), Emeric Pressburger (Director), Hans Christian Andersen (Writer), Michael Powell (Director) View All

Release: Jul. 20th, 1948

Runtime: 2 hours, 13 minutes

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

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13 The Red Shoes

Has anybody seen it? I watched the last half hour and bit of the beginning but was captured ...

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mark f
I'll admit that I prefer the melodrama of The Red Shoes because it's far more original, cinematic and "human" than the others I mentioned, but if you like even only one of those other films, you owe it to yourself to watch Powell/Pressburger, and The Red Shoes is as good a place to start as any.

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Gideon58
This intimate yet inviting cinematic canvas focuses primarily on three characters: Julian Craster (Marius Goring) is a music student who goes to see the premiere of his music teacher's new ballet and is shocked to find that the teacher stole some of Julian's music for the ballet; Julian's angry cla....

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