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  • Title: The Red Shoes (Criterion #44)
  • Summary: Under the authoritarian rule of a charismatic ballet impressario, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty.
  • Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
  • Cast: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine
  • Year: 1948
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  • Keywords: Ballet | Dance
  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: Black Swan, Blood Wedding, Dracula Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Faerie Queen, Pas de Deux, Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Steps of the Ballet
  • Language: English
  • Country: UK
  • Comments: The DVD includes an audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie. (The commentary includes interviews with Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale and with Martin Scorsese.) The DVD also includes a demonstration of the restoration of the film with Martin Scorsese, Jeremy Irons reading from the novelization of "The Red Shoes" and the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, a documentary about the making of the film ("Profile of The Red Shoes"), an interview with Michael Powell's widow (editor Thelma Schoonmaker), Martin Scorsese's collection of Red Shoes memorabilia, photographs, the animated film "Red Shoes Sketches" and the theatrical trailer.
  • Collection: Drama
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  • Title: Red Shoes, The (Criterion #44)
  • Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
  • Cast: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine
  • Country: UK
  • Format: LD
  • Title: Red Shoes, The (Criterion #44)
  • Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
  • Cast: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine
  • Country: UK
  • Format: DVD