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The Red Shoes

Eager young ballerina Victoria Page is delighted at being given the opportunity to dance with the renowned Ballet Lermontov, little realising the demands of its brilliant yet arrogant impresario will force a tragic choice between her career and her lover.

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2 hours, 8 minutes

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Thursday22:10
BBC Four

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Brian Easdale

    The Ballet of The Red Shoes

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.

  • Ted Heath & Kenny Baker

    Bougainvillia

  • Margherita Grandi

    Aria

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake

  • Franz Liszt

    Les Sylphides

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Boutique Fantasque

    Composer: Gioachino Rossini.

  • Adolphe Adam

    Giselle

  • Léo Delibes

    Danse de la Poupée

Credits

Boris LermontovAnton Walbrook
Victoria PageMoira Shearer
Julian CrasterMarius Goring
Ivan BoleslawskyRobert Helpmann
Sergei RatovAlbert Basserman
LivyEsmond Knight
Irina BoronskajaLudmilla Tcherina
LjubovLeonide Massine
HerselfMarie Rambert
DancerRobert Dorning
DirectorMichael Powell
DirectorEmeric Pressburger
WriterMichael Powell
WriterEmeric Pressburger
ProducerMichael Powell
ProducerEmeric Pressburger
ComposerBrian Easdale
Director of photographyJack Cardiff

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