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]
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Directed by | Lev Arnshtam Leonid Lavrovsky |
Written by | William Shakespeare Lev Arnshtam Leonid Lavrovsky |
Starring | Yuri Zhdanov Galina Ulanova |
Cinematography | Yu-Lan Chen Aleksandr Shelenkov |
Edited by | Lichorshin |
Music by | Sergei Prokofiev |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
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