The Red Shoes U

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Duration:
133 mins
Year produced:
1948
Director:
Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell
Cast:
Anton Walbrook
Marius Goring
Moira Shearer

Boris Lermontov is a great dance teacher - one who drives his students hard to be the best. Young ballerina Victoria Page is about to be a big star, but upsets Lermontov when she falls for a composer named Julian Craster. Julian wrote The Red Shoes - the ballet which was to star Victoria, but that Lermontov now refuses to let her appear in. So will Victoria choose stardom - or Julian?

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Fascinating facts

There were a lot of complaints about the grim ending. Ironically in the original fairytale the balerina has her feet hacked off by a woodsman.

The main ballet sequence in The Red Shoes took six weeks to shoot.