A young étoile is torn between her domestic love for a musician her age and her obsessive dedication to ballet, impersonated by the Mephistophelian creator of ballets who discovered her. Moira Shearer and Anton Walbrook present an essence of ballet in the most blazing melodrama by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. At the center, the ballet sequence inspired by Andersen’s fairy tale and exceptional art direction.
