The Red Shoes (1948 film)
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The Red Shoes is a 1948 British dance drama film written, produced and directed by the duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page, an aspiring ballerina who joins the world
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
Marius Goring was cast as Julian Craster.
The Red Shoes (fairy tale)
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"The Red Shoes" is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen 7 April 1845 in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Third Collection
The Red Shoes (1948 film)
…also features Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, and Ludmilla Tchérina, other renowned dancers from the ballet world. The metafictional plot is based on the 1845 fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, and features a ballet within it by the same title, also adapted from the Andersen work. The Red Shoes was filmmaking team…
Illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen