Romeo and Juliet (1955)
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.
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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
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