Romeo & Juliet

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

Cast

Galina Ulanova

as Juliet

Yuri Zhdanov

as Romeo

Iraida Olenina

as Juliet's nurse

Aleksandr Radunsky

as Lord Capulet

Yelena Ilyushchenko

as Lady Capulet

Aleksey Yermolayev

as Tybalt

Sergei Koren

as Mercutio

Vladimir Kudryashov

as Benvolio

Lev Loshchilin

as Friar Laurence

Aleksandr Lapauri

as Paris

S. Uvarov

Georgi Farmanyants

Mikhail Lavrovsky

as Page

Crew

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Conductor

Lichorshin

Film Processor

Sergei Prokofiev

Music

Lev Arnshtam

Director

Leonid Lavrovsky

Director

Aleksandr Shelenkov

Director of Photography

Chen-U-Lang

Director of Photography

William Shakespeare

Book

Leonid Lavrovsky

Screenplay

Lev Arnshtam

Screenplay

Aleksei Parkhomenko

Production Design

Leonid Lavrovsky

Director of Photography