"Well, one might call it the poetry of motion perhaps..."
Successful impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) finds and encourages the young ballerina Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) and the composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring). Then on the brink of superstardom, she marries Julian and earns Lermontov's scorn so leaves. A year later Lermontov meets Vicky again and asks her to come back. His request creates turmoil in her, being torn between his demands and her desire and need to dance.
An ode to the beauty that is ballet, this is a sumptuous film, set around the love lives of people in love with, and driven by music and dance, as much as with each other.
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