The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer, Richard Wagner. As a life-long fan can Stephen, who is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust, salvage Wagner's music from its dark associations with anti-Semitism and Hitler?
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Metacritic56/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Patrick McGradyWriter
- Patrick McGradyDirector
Cast
- Stephen FrySelf
Themes
classical musicbavaria, germanymusic historyenglishman abroadtheater troupe