The Red Shoes (1948 film)

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The Red Shoes is a 1948 movie about a ballerina named Victoria Page. She becomes famous after dancing in a ballet based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Red Shoes, and the head of the ballet company, Boris Lermontov, is determined to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever seen. Lermontov is furious to find out that she has fallen in love with Julian Craster, the composer of the ballet, because he feels that it will interfere with her ability to dance. She is torn between her love of dancing and of Julian, and finds herself unable to wholly devote herself to either.

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