Romeo and Juliet on screen choreography by Jerome Robbins. Widely admired, and the winner of ten Oscars, the 1961 film of the show – set among New York gangs – does not aim for a realistic portrayal of New York gang culture: in the opening sequence the Jets and the Sharks trade dance-steps instead of blows. The Jets are a gang of white youths, equivalent to Shakespeare's Montagues; the Sharks, equivalent to the Capulets, are Puerto Rican. Unlike Shakespeare who included relationships between his young lovers and the older generation (the parents, and parent-substitutes such as the Nurse and Friar Laurence) "West Side Story" keeps
Romanoff and Juliet (film) should be thanking them, as they've proven love cannot be defeated. He will go to the United Nations to report on Concordia's victory. The film was shot in Italy. Ustinov was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Romanoff and Juliet (film) Romanoff and Juliet is a 1961 American Technicolor romantic comedy film adaptation of the play "Romanoff and Juliet", which was itself loosely based on "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, released by Universal Pictures. Peter Ustinov wrote the screenplay,