THE RED SHOES

Year: 1948
UK: Park Circus
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Country: UK
UK: 135 mins
UK Certificate: U contains mild threat, injury and smoking
UK Release Date: 11 December 2009 (Re-release)
UK Distributor

Synopsis

Winner of two Oscars, this Powell and Pressburger classic centres on Vicky, a young ballerina starring in a ballet The Red Shoes. Like her character in the ballet, she is irresistibly drawn to dancing. Her life becomes split between her simple human passion and artistic devotion to her profession.

A masterpiece both for its stylistic ballet sequences and the fact that visually, the film is one of the most innovative and beautiful works of cinema ever created.

THE RED SHOES stars Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook and Royal Ballet star Robert Helpmann, who also choreographed The Ballet of The Red Shoes, the music for which was conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.