The Red Shoes (1948 film)
The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page, an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov, who tests her dedication to the ballet by making her choose between her career and her romance with composer Julian Craster.
Theatrical release poster
Publicity still showing a moment of the Ballet of the Red Shoes sequence
Moira Shearer, a trained ballerina, was cast in the lead role
Promotional flyer for the film
Michael Latham Powell was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).
Michael Powell
English Heritage blue plaque at Dorset House in Marylebone, central London
8 Melbury Road plaque in Holland Park, Kensington, central London
