Movie

Romeo and Juliet

★ 5.2/10 · 8 votes 1955 1h 32m Released

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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