The read
It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
This is Palmer's highly controversial portrait of Brahms - a film that exploded the familiar image of 'stodgy old bearded Brahms' - a man whose first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg where he had grown up, and who at the end of his life lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his ‘little singing girls'. It is a celebration - of Brahms' unabashed, life-enhancing, sexually explosive music. Warren Mitchell portrays the composer
Ratings
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Key crew
- Tony PalmerDirector
Cast
- Warren MitchellJohannes Brahms
- Edward MichieBrahms as a boy
- Lori PiitzClara
- Sean BoyceBrahms as a young man
- Kate PenningJulie