Romeo and Juliet

Ромео и Джульетта

1955·92'

Lev Arnshtam

RomanceDramaMusic

★ 5.2

Letterboxd TMDB #199427

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 Juliet

Yuri Zhdanov Romeo

Iraida Olenina Juliet's nurse

Aleksandr Radunsky Lord Capulet

Yelena Ilyushchenko Lady Capulet

Aleksey Yermolayev Tybalt

Sergei Koren Mercutio

Vladimir Kudryashov Benvolio

Lev Loshchilin Friar Laurence

Aleksandr Lapauri Paris

S. Uvarov

Georgi Farmanyants