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West Side Story(Movie, 2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 36min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love, Crime
West Side StoryRating: 3.5/5 (with 624624 votes)
West Side Story is a 2021 American musical romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Tony Kushner. The second feature-length adaptation of the 1957 stage musical of the same name, it stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler in her film debut with Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, and Rita Moreno in supporting roles. Moreno, who starred in the 1961 film adaptation, also served as an executive producer alongside Kushner. The film features music composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The film entered development in 2014 at 20th Century Fox; Kushner began writing the screenplay in 2017. In January 2018, Spielberg was hired and casting began that September. Justin Peck choreographed the dance sequences. Principal photography occurred in New York and New Jersey; filming began in July 2019 and ran for two months. West Side Story had its world premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater in ... ()
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Awards & Nominations for West Side Story

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Academy Award for Best Picture

About West Side Story

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on: "West Side Story" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: German (DE)
Translated into 35 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/10/2021 (World premiere: 12/08/2021)
Producer: Kristie Macosko Krieger, Kevin McCollum, Stacey Snider, Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Tony Kushner
Film Editor: Michael Kahn
Director of Photography: Janusz Kamiński
Choreographer: Justin Peck
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Amor Sin Barreras"
"Batı Yakasının Hikâyesi"
"Steven Spielberg's West Side Story"

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