The Red Shoes returns to cinemas for its 75th anniversary.
In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art. Like the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s source fairytale, whose magic shoes compel her to dance, Victoria Page – played by real-life ballerina Moira Shearer – finds herself driven to breaking point by obsessive Russian impresario Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) when she’s cast in his ballet The Red Shoes.
Credits
UK 1948
135 mins
Cert TBC
Dir Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
With Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
