Romeo and Juliet (1955 film)
Romeo and Juliet (Russian: Ромео и Джульетта, translit. Romeo i Dzhulyetta) is a 1955 Soviet ballet film directed by Lev Arnshtam. The film was based on the 1940 production of Prokofiev's ballet, choreographed by Leonid Lavrovsky. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Lyrical Film and was nominated as the Palme d'Or.[1]
Romeo and Juliet
Lev Arnshtam
Leonid Lavrovsky
Romeo and Juliet
1597 play
by William Shakespeare
Pavel Danilyants
Yu-Lan Chen
Aleksandr Shelenkov
Tatyana Likhachyova
- 20 May 1955
92 minutes
Soviet Union