The Red Shoes

JACK CARDIFF: A TRIBUTE / DIGITAL RESTORATION

Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Starring: Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Jean Short.

UK, 1948. 133 mins.

Loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about a pair of enchanted crimson ballet slippers, THE RED SHOES follows the beautiful Vicky Page (Moira Shearer), a young socialite who loves ballet, the rising composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) whom she loves, and her dictatorial director, Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook). A meditation on the mutually exclusive demands of unstoppable artistic drive and obsessive romantic love – here presented in the first UK digital screening of the recently restored classic – THE RED SHOES is regularly cited as one of the most beautiful films of all time.

➜ Introduced by Trish Sheil from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.