The Red Shoes
October 13 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Event Admission
This iconic Powell and Pressburger melodrama, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen, focuses on Victoria Page (dancer Moira Shearer in her first film role), a young ballerina cast by obsessive Russian impresario Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) to star in his ballet The Red Shoes. Like her character, she is irresistibly drawn to dancing, but her life becomes torn between love and art. Shot in glorious Technicolor by Jack Cardiff, The Red Shoes won Oscars for art direction and music.
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Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
(UK, 1948, 135 min., digital)
Friday, October 11, 7:00 p.m. BROWN
Sunday, October 13, 5:00 p.m. BROWN
This iconic Powell and Pressburger melodrama,
inspired by Hans Christian Andersen, focuses on
Victoria Page (dancer Moira Shearer in her first film
role), a young ballerina cast by obsessive Russian
impresario Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) to star in
his ballet The Red Shoes. Like her character, she is
irresistibly drawn to dancing, but her life becomes torn
between love and art. Shot in glorious Technicolor
by Jack Cardiff, The Red Shoes won Oscars for art
direction and music.
