Romeo and Juliet (1955)

• Romance
• Music
• Drama

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.

Rating

5.2 / 10 (8 votes)

Release date

May 19, 1955

Runtime

1h 32m

Language

Russian

Director

Lev Arnshtam, Leonid Lavrovsky

Status

Released