Experience Powell and Pressburger’s magical interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s sinister fairy tale on the big screen, as it celebrates its 75th anniversary https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfifilmrelea...

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In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art. Like the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s source fairytale, whose magic shoes compel her to dance, Victoria Page – played by reallife ballerina Moira Shearer – finds herself driven to breaking point by obsessive Russian impresario Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) when she’s cast in his ballet The Red Shoes.

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