The Red Shoes (Criterion Collection)

The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Black Narcissus, the Small Back Room), is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor visual feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer (The Tales of Hoffmann, Peeping Tom) is a rising star ballerina romantically torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection. Featuring outstanding performances, blazingly beautiful cinematography by Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus, the African Queen), Oscar-winning sets and music, and an unforgettable, hallucinatory central dance sequence, this beloved classic, now dazzlingly restored, stands as an enthralling tribute to the life of the artist.

Director: Emeric Pressburger
Director: Michael Powell
Producer: Emeric Pressburger
Producer: George R. Busby
Producer: Michael Powell
Actor: Albert Basserman
Actor: Léonide Massine
Actor: Anton Walbrook
Actor: Marius Goring
Actor: Moira Shearer
Actor: Leonide Massine
Actor: Billy Shine
Actor: Michel Bazalgette
Actor: Yvonne Andre
Actor: Robert Helpmann
Actor: Ludmilla Tcherina
Actor: Esmond Knight
Actor: Denis Carey
Actor: Jean Short
Actor: Gordon Littman
Actor: Julia Lang
Actor: Austin Trevor
Actor: Derek Elphinstone
Actor: Eric Berry
Actor: Irene Browne
Actor: Jerry Verno
Actor: Hay Petrie
Actor: George Woodbridge
Actor: Joan Harris
Actor: Robert Dorning
Actor: Guy Massey
Actor: Marcel Poncin
Actor: Emeric Pressburger
Actor: Bill Shine