Dance Films With Jake - A Tribute To Powell and Pressburger Films (1948)
Valentine's Special Screening (130min)
Doors Open: 19:00
Film Starts: 19:15 (with special opening performance)
Valentine Drinks Till: 23:00
A 1948 British drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), who tests her dedication to the ballet by making her choose between her career and her romance with composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring).
It marked the feature film debut of Shearer, an established ballerina, and also features Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, and Ludmilla Tchérina, other renowned dancers from the ballet world. The plot is based on the 1845 fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, and features a ballet within it by the same title, also adapted from the Andersen work. The Red Shoes was filmmaking team Powell and Pressburger's tenth collaboration and follow-up to 1947's Black Narcissus. It had been conceived by Powell and producer Alexander Korda in the 1930s, from whom the duo purchased the rights in 1946. The majority of the cast were professional dancers.
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Location information:
Ventilator cinema/ Bar at OT301 - on the 2nd floor
Accessibility - Only stairs. No elevator available to get to the 2nd floor.
Address - Overtoom 301 Amsterdam
Bike parking - Due to having neighbors, no parking in front of the OT301 building entrance.
Public transit -Tram stop ‘J.P. Heijestraat’ (Tram 1)
Car parking - Reade Overtoom (Paid per hour) or streetside.
