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The Red Shoes
Cast
Moira Shearer, Adolf Wohlbrück, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine View AllCrew
Emeric Pressburger (Screenplay), Emeric Pressburger (Director), Hans Christian Andersen (Writer), Michael Powell (Director) View All
Release: Jul. 20th, 1948
Runtime: 2 hours, 13 minutes
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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.
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 claims of his work eventually get him hired as the new conductor of the ballet's orchestra and he asked to re-write a new ballet called "The Ballet of the Red Shoes"; Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) is the aspiring ballerina also in the audience who is eventually offered the lead in the Red Shoes ballet when it opens in Monte Carlo; Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) is the tyrannical and slightly maniacal artistic director of the ballet company whose issues of control and obsession with Victoria leads to great success and eventual tragedy.
