Romeo and Juliet
5.2/ 10 8 votes 1955-05-19 1h 32m 1 popularity
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.
Director: Lev Arnshtam
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
