The Red Shoes (1948 film)
- Moira Shearer: Victoria Page
- Anton Walbrook: Boris Lermontov
- Robert Helpmann: Ivan Boleslawsky
- Léonide Massine: Grisha Lyubov
- Ludmilla Tcherina Irina Boronskaja
The Red Shoes is a British ballet film with Anton Walbrook and Moira Shearer.
Action
The film's title is derived from an eponymous fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen: The film tells the story of a young ballerina who appears in a ballet that carries the film title as name. The story was adapted from Powell and Pressburger for Alexander Korda, who wanted to play his future wife Merle Oberon in it. Since this project remained unrealized for several years, Powell and Pressburger bought back the script, revised it and produced it myself
The plot revolves around Victoria " Vicki " Page, a young dancer from a wealthy, aristocratic house. At a party she meets Boris Lermontov, a single-minded and merciless ballet manager, which brings a student to be Ballet Lermontov. Page follows the ensemble to Paris and Monte Carlo. Lermontov recognizes their potential and calls on them to design the title role of a new ballet, The Red Shoes. As a composer, the young coach Julian Craster is purchased. Page and Craster fall in love during rehearsals for the new piece. The show is a success, but Lermontov prohibited the liaison between the dancer and the musician. Craster refuses and leaves the ballet, Page follows him and marries him.
Some time later travels Page to Monte Carlo, where her ballet, which had taken the angry Lermontov after their exit from the repertoire, to be danced again. As she prepares for the first performance, appears Craster and demands that she leaves the ballet and follows him. Torn between love for Craster and love for ballet she commits suicide. She jumps from a balcony in front of a train. Julian rushes in and she dies in his arms. With her last words please Julian, taking her red shoes. In the performance of The Red Shoes, which takes place despite Pages death, suggests a spotlight on the empty space they should occupy.
Reviews
" The film lives less of its rather banal story, but rather of his, show ' elements: the music Brian Easdales, by Thomas Beecham interpreted exquisite, the colorful equipment Hein Roth's tail and especially the choreography Robert Helpmann Mans. "
" A masterpiece of the ballet film, all film- design options - advance camera, editing, colors - well exploits. "
"The strength of this film, which tells a story from the milieu of the ballet artist does not lie in the center of events, it is based in the overwhelming noise and color offered in the transparency of the presented with purely visual means enjoying art. The highlight of this excellent in camera work, cutting technique and musical film is the performance of the ballet The Red Shoes. "
" The Red Shoes, released in 1948, is Perhaps the definitive ballet movie. "
" Andersen's theme makes the content of the film from ever, so to speak allegorically. It has been varied from the timelessness of the Contemporary, from the fairy tale magic in Psychological. "
Musical
Based on the movie of the same name, a musical by Jule Styne, which was premiered at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway in New York on 16 December 1993 arose. At that time, Steve Barton played the lead role of the ballet impresario Boris Lermontov. Margaret Illman was in the role of Victoria Page of dance star of this piece. For the choreography of the dance sequences in the show Lar Lubovitch received the Astaire Award from the Theater Development Fund. The musical was played after 51 previews, a total of only five times and dropped thereafter.
Album
Also in 1993, Kate Bush released her excited by the movie The Red Shoes album with a title track of the same name.
Awards
- Academy Awards 1949 Best Production Design ( Hein Heckenroth )
- Best Film Score in the category Drama / Comedy (Brian Easdale )
- Nominations: Best Picture (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger )
- Nomination: Best Editing ( Reginald Mills )
- Nomination: Best Original Story Emeric Pressburger )