Romeo and Juliet

Movie · 1h 32m

Starring Galina Ulanova, Yuri Zhdanov, Iraida Olenina, Aleksandr Radunsky

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.