The Music Lovers (1971)

Directors

Ken Russell

Cast

Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Christopher Gable

The story

Much of the film is without dialogue and the story is presented in flashbacks, nightmares, and fantasy sequences set to Tchaikovsky's music. As a child, the composer sees his mother die horribly, forcibly immersed in scalding water as a supposed cure for cholera, and is haunted by the scene throughout his musical career. Despite his difficulty in establishing his reputation, he attracts Madame Nadezhda von Meck as his patron.

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