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Music Lovers (The)

Country: UK, Language: English, 123 mins

  • Director: Ken Russell
  • Writer: Melvyn Bragg; Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Producer: Roy Baird; Ken Russell

CGiii Comment

Chamberlain is perfectly cast.

Jackson just lets herself go - giving one of the most memorable performances ever seen in cinema.

It has all the Russell trademarks - the unflinching adherence to a subjective truth - no matter what the censors dictate.

And that is why Russell is simply such an important director - he did not pander to their hypocrisy.

Spellbinding work.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The compelling and bizarre story of Tchaikovsky's life and music. In Ken Russell's own words: "It's the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac."

Cast & Characters

Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky;
Glenda Jackson as Nina;
Max Adrian as Nicholas Rubinstein;
Christopher Gable as Count Anton Chiluvsky;
Kenneth Colley as Modeste Tchaikovsky;
Izabella Telezynska as Madame Nadedja von Meck;
Maureen Pryor as Nina's Mother;
Sabina Maydelle as Sasha Tchaikovsky;
Andrew Faulds as Davidov;
Bruce Robinson as Alexei Sofronov;
Ben Aris as Young Lieutenant;
Xavier Russell as Koyola;
Dennis Myers as Von Meck, twin;
John Myers as Von Meck, twin;
Joanne Brown as Olga Bredska