The Red Shoes

One of Powell and Pressburger’s masterpieces is a celebration of art, dance, music and the power of cinema to move and inspire.

  • Directors

    Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

  • With

    Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann

  • UK 1948. 135min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

Victoria Page, an aspiring dancer, is transformed by Svengali producer Boris Lermontov into a prima ballerina. But her love for composer Julian Craster and the pressures of her work threaten to consume her. Newcomer Shearer, Walbrook and Goring have rarely been better than they are in Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece, a glorious paean to dance and art, which articulately explores the dangers inherent in obsessively following one’s dreams.