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Romeo and Juliet (1955 film)

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Romeo and Juliet
Film poster
Directed byLev Arnshtam
Leonid Lavrovsky
Written byLev Arnshtam
Leonid Lavrovsky
Based onRomeo and Juliet
1597 play
by William Shakespeare
Produced byPavel Danilyants
StarringYuri Zhdanov
Galina Ulanova
CinematographyYu-Lan Chen
Aleksandr Shelenkov
Edited byTatyana Likhachyova
Music bySergei Prokofiev
Release date
  • 20 May 1955 (1955-05-20)
Running time
92 minutes
CountrySoviet Union

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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  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Romeo and Juliet". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
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