Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection. Featuring outstanding performances, blazingly beautiful cinematography by Jack Cardiff, Oscar-winning sets and music, and an unforgettable, hallucinatory central dance sequence, this beloved classic, dazzlingly restored, stands as an enthralling tribute to the life of the artist.
The Red Shoes was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in association with the BFI, The Film Foundation, ITV Global Entertainment Ltd., and Janus Films. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Film Foundation, and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
4K UHD + Blu-ray Special Edition Features
- 4K digital master from the 2009 restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Restoration demonstration featuring filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Audio commentary from 1994 by film scholar Ian Christie, featuring interviews with actors Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and Scorsese
- A Profile of “The Red Shoes,” a 2000 documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team
- Interview with director Michael Powell’s widow, editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
- Audio recordings of actor Jeremy Irons reading excerpts from Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger’s novelization of The Red Shoes and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Red Shoes”
- Publicity stills and behind-the- scenes photos
- Gallery of memorabilia from Scorsese’s collection
- The “Red Shoes” Sketches, a 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic David Ehrenstein and notes on the restoration by film preservationist Robert Gitt
Cover by F. Ron Miller
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
4K UHD + Blu-ray Special Edition Features
- 4K digital master from the 2009 restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Restoration demonstration featuring filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Audio commentary from 1994 by film scholar Ian Christie, featuring interviews with actors Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and Scorsese
- A Profile of “The Red Shoes,” a 2000 documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team
- Interview with director Michael Powell’s widow, editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
- Audio recordings of actor Jeremy Irons reading excerpts from Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger’s novelization of The Red Shoes and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Red Shoes”
- Publicity stills and behind-the- scenes photos
- Gallery of memorabilia from Scorsese’s collection
- The “Red Shoes” Sketches, a 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic David Ehrenstein and notes on the restoration by film preservationist Robert Gitt
Cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Anton Walbrook
- Boris Lermontov
- Marius Goring
- Julian Craster
- Moira Shearer
- Victoria Page
- Robert Helpmann
- Ivan Boleslawsky
- Léonide Massine
- Ljubov
- Albert Basserman
- Ratov
- Ludmilla Tchérina
- Boronskaja
- Esmond Knight
- Livy
- Austin Trevor
- Professor Palmer
- Eric Berry
- Dimitri
- Irene Brown
- Lady Neston
Credits
- Director
- Michael Powell
- Written, produced, and directed by
- Michael Powell
- Written, produced, and directed by
- Emeric Pressburger
- Production design
- Hein Heckroth
- Editing
- Reginald Mills
- Music composed, arranged, and conducted by
- Brian Easdale
- Art direction
- Arthur Lawson
- The "Ballet of the Red Shoes" choreography by
- Robert Helpmann
- The part of the shoemaker created and danced by
- Léonide Massine
- The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
- Sir Thomas Beecham
- Cinematography
- Jack Cardiff
- Director
- Emeric Pressburger
Trailer for The Red Shoes
