A young ballerina (Moira Shearer) must choose between her passion for dance and her love for a composer, while under the magnetic spell of a demanding impresario (Anton Walbrook). Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes is one of the most ravishing films ever made—a dazzlingly Technicolor backstage ballet drama that transcends the genre to become a profound meditation on artistic ambition, sacrifice, and obsession. Featuring the legendary seventeen-minute "Red Shoes" ballet sequence, this enduring classic is cinema as pure visual poetry.