Dance she did, and dance she must - between her two loves
Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
- 8.0
- 1948
- Released
- 2h 13m
Anton Walbrook
Boris Lermontov
Marius Goring
Julian Craster
Moira Shearer
Victoria Page
Robert Helpmann
Ivan Boleslawsky
Léonide Massine
Grischa Ljubov
Albert Bassermann
Sergei Ratov
Ludmilla Tchérina
Irina Boronskaja
Esmond Knight
Livy
Jean Short
TerryGordon Littmann
IkeJulia Lang
A Balletomane
Bill Shine
Her Mate
Austin Trevor
Prof. PalmerEric Berry
Dimitri
Irene Browne
Lady Neston
Jerry Verno
Stage-Door KeeperDerek Elphinstone
Lord OldhamMarie Rambert
Marie RambertJoy Rawlins
Gwladys - Vicky's friend
Marcel Poncin
M. BoudinMichel Bazalgette
M. Rideaut
Patrick Troughton
BBC Radio Announcer (voice)Jack Carter
Corps de Ballet (uncredited)
Released
en
$500,000.00
$10,000,000.00
- #dance
- #new love
- #london, england
- #dance performance
- #composer
- #ballet dancer
- #ballet
- #red shoes
Reviews
Moira Shearer is just excellent in this fine example of the cinematographer and choreographer's arts - all under the able and inspired direction of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. She is the aspiring ballet dancer "Victoria" who must train under the positively brutal rule of acclaimed tutor "Lermontov" (Anton Walbrook). This maestro, however, expects undiluted devotion and so when this youn