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The Red Shoes (1948)

★ 8.0 · 744 ratings on TMDB

Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!

The Red Shoes poster★ 8.0

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

DirectorEmeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
CastAlbert Bassermann, Anton Walbrook, Esmond Knight, Gordon Littmann, Jean Short, Ludmilla Tchérina
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Red Shoes keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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