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The Red Shoes (1948) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: May 25, 1999
• R2: 21 May 2001
Budget GBP 551,927
Running Time
2 hours, 13 minutes
Country UK
Studio Archers, Eagle-Lion, J. Arthur Rank Productions
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Other Titles
• The Red Shoes
• Die Roten Schuhe (1949)
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Fantasy, Love, Tragedy, Love Triangle, Marriage
Tagline: Dance she did, and dance she must - between her two loves
Plot: Powell and Pressburger, who called their unique creative partnership The Archers, were no strangers to controversy. Each film they made together aimed it's barb at complacency and tackled a new creative challenge. They intended for this story, of a ballerina's life backstage, to turn into a manifesto for the claims of art over mundane life. Through a young dancer's eyes, unforgettably played by Moira Shearer, we meet a young composer, played by Marius Goring, and we enter a ballet company under the leading dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann. At the center of the company is the malevolent charming impresario Boris Lermontov. Lermontov lives through his creations. People and relationships are ruthlessly subordinated to a drive that inevitably reminds us of the drive to make films. Under the authoritarian rule this charismatic ballet impresario, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his guidance, the young ballerina is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov's scorn when she falls in love with the composer of "The Red Shoes," the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents.
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| Directed by |
Michael Powell
Peeping Tom, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus | Emeric Pressburger
A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
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| Written by |
| Michael Powell
New York Stories, Peeping Tom, A Matter of Life and Death |
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| Cast |
| Marius Goring
A Matter of Life and Death, The Barefoot Contessa, Exodus | Moira Shearer
Peeping Tom, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Story of Three Loves | Robert Helpmann
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chronicle History or King Henry the Fifth, 55 Days at Peking | | | | |
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| Music By |
Brian Easdale
Peeping Tom, Black Narcissus, The Battle of the River Plate |
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