Classic ballet drama starring Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer and Marius Goring. Ballet impresario Boris Lermontov enlists promising dancer Victoria Page and young composer Julian Craster in his company. But when the couple fall in love, Lermontov decides that romance will not interfere with their careers.
In her film debut, Moira Shearer stars as the ballerina whose life is torn between a career with a manipulative impresario (Anton Walbrook) and marriage to a young composer (Marius Goring). Based vaguely on the story of Sergei Diaghilev and Waslaw Nijinsky, this is arguably the best-loved dance film of all time (Martin Scorsese often cites it as his all-time favourite movie), enabling the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger to ponder the power and nature of the subject matter with some extravagant, exuberant dance sequences and a riot of Oscar-winning Technicolor designs. Shearer and Walbrook give impeccable portrayals of innocence and tragedy at the service of art.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Boris Lermontov | Anton Walbrook |
| Victoria Page | Moira Shearer |
| Julian Craster | Marius Goring |
| Grischa Ljubov | Léonide Massine |
| Ivan Boleslawsky | Robert Helpmann |
| Sergei Ratov | Albert Basserman |
| Livy | Esmond Knight |
| Irina Boronskaja | Ludmilla Tcherina |
| Terry | Jean Short |
| Ike | Gordon Littman |
| Professor Palmer | Austin Trevor |
| Dimitri | Eric Berry |
| Lady Neston | Irene Browne |
| Stage-door keeper | Jerry Verno |
| Lord Oldham | Derek Elphinstone |
| Monsieur Boudin | Marcel Poncin |
| Monsieur Rideaut | Michel Bazalgette |
| Boisson | Hay Petrie |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Michael Powell |
| Director | Emeric Pressburger |
