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Film details
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Featuring
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Directors
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1948
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“My father took me to see this film in 1950. I wouldn’t know how to begin to explain what this film has meant to me over the years. It’s one of the true miracles of film history.”
Martin Scorsese, The Telegraph, 2011
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.
With its captivating behind-the-scenes insight into the creative process, and characters for whom art is more important than life itself, the film has proved an inspiration to filmmakers and dancers alike. For writer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, it represented a triumphant attempt to create a ‘composed film’ in which music – here by Brian Easdale – plays a more central role, demanding similar expressive intensity in every detail of design and performance. Fittingly, it won Oscars for both art direction and music.
Powell and Pressburger pushed their marriage of film and music further in The Tales of Hoffman (1951). For a more recent ballet-induced breakdown, see Black Swan (2010).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Boris Lermontov
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Julian Craster
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Victoria Page
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Ivan Boleslawsky
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Grischa Ljubov
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Ratov
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Irina Boronskaja
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Livingstone 'Livy' Montague
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Terry
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Ike
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a balletomane
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a balletomane's mate
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Professor Palmer
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Dimitri
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Lady Neston
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George, stage-door keeper
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Lord Oldham
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herself
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Gwladys, Vicky's friend
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M. Boudin
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M. Rideaut
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Vicky's dresser
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Boisson
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solo dancer
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solo dancer
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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dancer (The Ballet of The Red Shoes)
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accompanist (The Ballet of The Red Shoes
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[doorman]
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[.]
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[.]
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Credits
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Direction:
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The Entire Production Directed by
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The Entire Production Directed by
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Assistant Director
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[Assistant Director (2nd)]
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[Assistant Director (3rd)]
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[Assistant Director (3rd)]
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Continuity
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[Assistant Continuity]
Production:
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©
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A Production of the Archers
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J. Arthur Rank Presents
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Released through
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The Entire Production Produced by
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The Entire Production Produced by
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Assistant Producer
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[Production Assistant]
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[Production Secretary]
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Made at
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Made at
Writing:
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The Entire Production Written by
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The Entire Production Written by
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With Additional Dialogue by
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From an Original Screenplay by
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Beneath Main Title Credit [for Story]
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Colour Control
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Associate [Colour Control]
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Camera Operator
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Technicolor Composite Photography
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Technicolor Composite Photography
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[Focus Puller]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Clapper Loader]
Stills:
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[Stills]
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[Assistant Stills]
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[Special Stills]
Editing:
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Editor
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Liaison Editor
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor (2nd)]
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[Assistant Editor (2nd)]
Design:
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Production Designed by
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Art Director
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[Assistant Art Director]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
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Special Painting
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Special Painting
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Scenic Artist
Costumes:
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Miss Shearer's Dresses by
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Miss Shearer's Dresses by
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Mlle Tcherina's Dresses by
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Wardrobe
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[Wardrobe]
Make-up:
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[Masks]
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[Make-up Supervisor]
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[Make-up]
Music:
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Music Composed Arranged and Conducted by
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Music [Played by]
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Music [Aria Sung by]
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Music [of Café de Paris Sequence]
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The Ballet of the Red Shoes Orch Cond by
Sound:
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Music Recorder
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[Chief Production Mixer]
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Sound
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Sound System
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[Boom Operator]
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Dubbing
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[Dubbing Editor]
Choreography:
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The Ballet of the Red Shoes Choreo by
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Part of the Shoemaker Created/Danced by
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Assistant Maître de Ballet
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Assistant Maîtresse de Ballet
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