Basic Info
Title:
The Music Lovers
Genre:
Biography, Drama
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Running time:
124 minutes
Release date:
February 25, 1971 (London), January 24, 1971 (New York City), February 17, 1971
(United States)
Staff
Director: Ken
Russell
Producer: Ken
Russell
Screenplay:
Melvyn Bragg
Music:
André Previn
Cinematography:
Douglas Slocombe
Edited by: Michael
Bradsell
Cast
Richard
Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky
Glenda
Jackson as Nina (Antonina Milyukova)
Max
Adrian as Nikolai Rubinstein
Summary
"The Music Lovers" is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson. Based on "Beloved Friend", a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, Melvyn Bragg's screenplay focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
It
was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which
include “Elgar (1962)”, “Delius: Song of Summer (1968)”, “Mahler (1974)” and
“Lisztomania (1975)”, made from an idiosyncratic standpoint.
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| Mahler |
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| Lisztomania |
Movie Review
“Wonderful, one of Ken Russell's best”
“Peculiar and oddball Tchaikovsky biography in Ken Russell style”
“Ken Russell tries to understand Tchaikovsky, and at least he manages
to illustrate the case”
“Music and madness”
“Cinematic art by a consummate artiste”
“Tempestuous music demands a tempestuous drama”
“Nice autobiographical film with great visual style”
“My favorite film of all time”
The Behind Stories about the Film
1.
Some of the interior scenes of Madame Nadezhda von Meck's estate were later
used in Stanley Kubrick's “Barry Lyndon (1975).”
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| Madame Nadezhda von Meck |
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| Barry Lyndon |
2.
In the biography of Alan Bates, director Ken Russell mentioned that he had
offered Bates the role of Tchaikovsky while filming "Women in Love
(1969)." Bates admired the script, but he turned down the role.
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| Women in Love |
3.
Ken Russell offered Glenda Jackson the role of Sister Jeanne in the film,
"The Devils (1971)”, his follow-up film to “The Music Lovers”. However,
Jackson turned down the role because she did not want to play another
over-the-top sexually neurotic female character so soon after Antonina. The role
went to Vanessa Redgrave.
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| The Devils |
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