If you love your mother, you'll be a homosexual—but you won't like it.
Music Lovers (The)
- Director: Ken Russell
- Writer: Melvyn Bragg; Catherine Drinker Bowen
- Producer: Roy Baird; Ken Russell
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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