Romeo and Juliet

Overview

Russian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families. The film was based on the 1940 production of Prokofiev's ballet, choreographed by Leonid Lavrovsky. It won the Best Lyrical Film at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, was nominated as the Palme d'Or.

Cast

Galina Ulanova

Juliet

Yuri Zhdanov

Romeo

Iraida Olenina

Juliet's nurse

Aleksandr Radunsky

Lord Capulet

Yelena Ilyushchenko

Lady Capulet

Aleksey Yermolayev

Tybalt

Sergei Koren

Mercutio

Vladimir Kudryashov

Benvolio

N/A

Lev Loshchilin

Friar Laurence

Aleksandr Lapauri

Paris

N/A

S. Uvarov

N/A

Georgi Farmanyants