Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Garnering a total of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture of 1961 West Side Story set a brilliant standard for movie musicals that remains unsurpassed to this day Directed by Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins from Ernest Lehman&s spectacular screenplay the film combines the unforgettable score of Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim with Robbins& exuberant choreography to create a transcendent fusion of realism & fantasy that will forever be a feast for the eye the ear & ultimately the heart A triumph on every level this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo & Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in the slums of 1950&s New York