Romeo and Juliet (1955)

5.2/10 • 92 min • Romance Music Drama

Overview

Russian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families. The film was based on the 1940 production of Prokofiev's ballet, choreographed by Leonid Lavrovsky. It won the Best Lyrical Film at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, was nominated as the Palme d'Or.

Cast

Galina Ulanova

Yuri Zhdanov

Iraida Olenina

Aleksandr Radunsky

Yelena Ilyushchenko

Aleksey Yermolayev

Sergei Koren

Vladimir Kudryashov

Aleksandr Lapauri

Paris

Mikhail Lavrovsky

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