The Red Shoes 1948

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 133 min

genre: drama

theme: dance

director: Emeric Pressburger

Score: 7 / 10

The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), who tests her dedication to the ballet by making her choose between her career and her romance with composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring).

Plot

London music student Julian Craster attends a performance of the ballet Heart of Fire, performed by the eminent travelling ballet company Ballet Lermontov and scored by his professor. Also present are young dancer Victoria 'Vicky' Page and her aunt Lady Neston. Julian furiously walks out after recognising that the professor has plagiarised his compositions.

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author	Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell
award	Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	London Monte Carlo Paris
director	Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell
editor	Reginald Mills
events	ambition art ballet internal conflict obsession passion romantic love
genre	drama romance
keywords	andersen fairytale ballet company ballet rambert change of heart covent garden covent garden opera house getting married impresario married opening night prima ballerina red shoes répétiteur swan lake the red shoes
musicBy	Brian Easdale
nomination	Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Story
producer	Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell
productionCompany	Powell and Pressburger
publisher	General Film Distributors
recordedAt	Monaco Paris Pinewood Studios
theme	dance independent musical drama romantic drama