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The Red Shoes
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1948 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
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*The Red Shoes* is a 1948 British film directed, written, and produced by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell. The cast includes Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Marius Goring, and Anton Walbrook. Brian Easdale composed the score, while Jack Cardiff served as director of photography and Reginald Mills as film editor. The production was designed by Hein Heckroth and produced by Pinewood Studios. The film is based on a work by Hans Christian Andersen.
The narrative is set in Paris, London, and Monte Carlo, with filming taking place in Monaco, Paris, and at Pinewood Studios. It is classified as a romance, drama, musical, and dance film. The original language is English, and the runtime is 133 minutes. The film was distributed by Netflix and received the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films award. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Story, and Best Film Editing.
Audience reception includes an IMDb rating of 8.1 based on 43,678 votes and a TMDb average of 7.981 from 744 votes. The film had a budget of 500,000 and generated 10,000,000 in revenue. Its tagline reads, "Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!"
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Film · TMDB
8.0A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
Cast
- Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov
- Marius Goring as Julian Craster
- Moira Shearer as Victoria Page
- Robert Helpmann as Ivan Boleslawsky
- Léonide Massine as Grischa Ljubov
- Albert Bassermann as Sergei Ratov
Themes
- dance
- new love
- london, england
- dance performance
- composer
- ballet dancer
- ballet
- red shoes
- music
- composing
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Screenplay by
- Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger
- Based on
- " The Red Shoes ", (1845 fairy tale), by Hans Christian Andersen
- Produced by
- Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger
- Starring
- Anton Walbrook Marius Goring Moira Shearer Léonide Massine Robert Helpmann Albert Bassermann Esmond Knight Ludmilla Tchérina
- Cinematography
- Jack Cardiff
- Edited by
- Reginald Mills
- Music by
- Brian Easdale
- Production company
- The Archers
- Distributed by
- General Film Distributors
- Release date
- 22 July 1948 ( 1948-07-22 )
- Running time
- 134 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English French
- Budget
- > £ 505,600
- Box office
- US $5 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Red Shoes is a 1948 British dance drama film written, produced and directed by the duo of 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). It marked the feature film debut of Shearer, an established ballerina, and also features Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, and Ludmilla Tchérina, other renowned dancers from the ballet world. The metafictional plot is based on the 1845 fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, and features a ballet within it by the same title, also adapted from the Andersen work.
The Red Shoes was filmmaking team Powell and Pressburger's tenth collaboration and follow-up to 1947's Black Narcissus. It had been conceived by Powell and producer Alexander Korda in the 1930s, from whom the duo purchased the rights in 1946. The majority of the cast were professional dancers. Filming of The Red Shoes took place in mid-1946, primarily in France and England.
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