Allez au contenu, Allez à la navigation, Allez à la recherche, Change language

Home > Festival Archives > Selections > Fiche Film

THE RED SHOES

Cannes Classics

Directed by :: Michael POWELL Emeric PRESSBURGER

Country:: UNITED KINGDOM

Year:: 1948

Duration:: 136.00 minutes

Synopsis

This Powell and Pressburger classic is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made and winner of three Oscars. The Red Shoes contains the first full-length English ballet especially written for the screen. Choreographed by Australian-born Sir Robert Helpmann of the Royal Ballet Company, and partially conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, the story is based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of a young girl who cannot stop thinking about her red dancing shoes. Talented young dancer, Victoria Page comes to join the greatest ballet talent of the world in the famous Lermontov Company. Boris Lermontov knows she will be a great ballerina and demands iron discipline and complete dedication of her life. She reaches stardom in ‘The Red Shoes’ ballet, dancing to music by Julian Craster, the young composer whom Lermontov has patronised. Irresistibly, Vicky finds herself caught between two loves - the simple human passion that has brought her together with Julian, the musician, and the artistic devotion to the ballet and its jealous master, Lermontov. Their three lives are shaken by a torment that is echoed in the story of their new ballet. In her dancing fairy story of The Red Shoes and as her real self, Victoria is in danger of dancing to her death.

Credits

Michael POWELL - Director
Emeric PRESSBURGER - Director
Michael POWELL - Screenplay
Emeric PRESSBURGER - Screenplay
Jack CARDIFF - Cinematography
Hein HECKROTH - Set Designer
Brian EASDALE - Music
Reginald MILLS - Film Editor
Charles POULTON - Sound

Actors

Moira SHEARER - Victoria Page
Marius GORING - Julian Craster
Anton WALBROOK - Boris Lermentov
Leonide MASSINE - Ljubov
Ludmilla TCHERINA - Boronskaja
Robert HELPMANN - Ivan Boleslawsky

Contacts and useful links

Production

THE ARCHERS

Distribution

PARK CIRCUS (THEATRICAL) - T : +44 14 1332 2083 - nick@parkcircus.com - www.parkcircus.com

French press

ITV GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT - Simon Wheeler - T : +44 20 7157 6166 - simon.wheeler@itv.com - www.itvglobal.com

International press

ITV GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT - Fiona Maxwell - T : +44 20 8799 7817 - fiona.maxwell@itv.com - www.itvglobal.com

Foreign sales

ITV GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT - T : +44 20 7457 6201 - steve.gallant@itv.com - www.itvglobal.com