A budding prima ballerina is set to achieve her dream of stardom when she decides to leave her prestigious company to marry a composer - a decision that enrages her possessive mentor, who vows revenge. Powell and Pressburger's drama, based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen, starring Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann and Albert Basserman.

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.