Romeo & Juliet (1955)

4.9 | May 19, 1955 (SU) | Romance, Music, Drama | 01:32

ballet

Russian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families.

Lev Arnshtam

Director, Screenplay

Leonid Lavrovsky

Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography

William Shakespeare

Book

Sergei Prokofiev

Music

Aleksei Parkhomenko

Production Design

Aleksandr Shelenkov

Director of Photography

Chen-U-Lang

Director of Photography

Lichorshin

Film Processor

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Conductor

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

Lev Loshchilin

Friar Laurence

Aleksandr Lapauri

Paris