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The Red Shoes was filmmaking team Powell and Pressburger's tenth collaboration and follow-up to 1947's Black Narcissus. It had been conceived by Powell and producer Alexander Korda in the 1930s, from whom the duo purchased the rights in 1946.
The Red Shoes: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann. A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection.
‘The Red Shoes’: plot summary. The protagonist of ‘The Red Shoes’ is a young peasant girl named Karen. She is so poor she has no shoes except a rough pair of wooden shoes to wear in the winter. The local shoemaker makes her some red shoes fashioned from red cloth.
Jan 1, 2005 · In Max Ophuls' great "La Ronde" (1950), he is our urbane and charming guide to a decadent society. In "The Red Shoes," he creates a deliberate enigma, a man who does not want to be understood, who imposes his will but conceals his feelings. Vicky Page is his opposite: Joyous and open to life.
The Red Shoes. 1948 · 2 hr 16 min. TV-PG. Drama. Aspiring to become a prima ballerina, a young dancer is torn between her love for a charming composer and the demands of her obsessive instructor. Subtitles: English. Starring: Anton Walbrook Marius Goring Moira Shearer Robert Helpmann Albert Bassermann Léonide Massine.
The Red Shoes. In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art.
