The Red Shoes

Name: The Red Shoes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1948-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 8

About The Red Shoes

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

The Red Shoes is a 1948 romance film directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell. Released in September 1948, it runs 133 minutes.

The film is filed under music, dance, new love, and ballet.

Anton Walbrook takes the lead as Boris Lermontov, Marius Goring as Julian Craster, Moira Shearer as Victoria Page, and Robert Helpmann as Ivan Boleslawsky. The screenplay is by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell. In the United States it streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

Black Swan, Mao’s Last Dancer, and The American make useful companions to The Red Shoes, all filed under ballet dancer. TMDB voters put it at 8.0 out of 10 across 786 votes and it carries a NR rating.