Romeo & Juliet

Original title: Romeo i Dzhulyetta

1955
1h 32m

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Russian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families.Russian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families.Russian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families.

Directors
- Lev Arnshtam
- Leonid Lavrovsky
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7.6/10

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Directors
- Lev Arnshtam
- Leonid Lavrovsky
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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

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Galina Ulanova

Juliet

Yuri Zhdanov

Romeo
(as Yu. Zhdanov)

Iraida Olenina

Juliet's nurse
(as I. Olenina)

Aleksandr Radunsky

Lord Capulet
(as A. Radunsky)

Yelena Ilyushchenko

Lady Capulet
(as Ye. Ilyushchenko)

Aleksei Yermolayev

Tybalt
(as A. Yermolayev)

Sergey Koren

Mercutio
(as S. Koren)

Vladimir Kudryashov

Benvolio
(as V. Kudryashov)

Lev Loshchilin

Friar Laurence
(as L. Loshchilin)

Aleksandr Lapauri

Paris
(as A. Lapauri)

Serafim Uvarov

Georgi Farmanyants

Directors
- Lev Arnshtam
- Leonid Lavrovsky
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10/10

Magnificent in every possible way

A beautiful score by Prokofiev, Galina Ulanova, the most exalted prima ballerina in the USSR, a gorgeous setting, Rozhdesventsky conducting - a perfect realization of a genre mastered and then forgotten by the Soviets. Their filmic operas and this ballet film are superb realizations, setting stage art to cinema. I'm not aware of any recent productions of this great art form. The Tsar's Bride, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina are, in addition to this R&J, aesthetic and (for me) ecstatic art experiences. The two latter mentioned were directed by Vera Stroyova with some of the best singers of that era.