mahler

Director: ken russell

Actor: robert powell,georgina hale,lee montague,miriam karlin

Data Published: Fri May 17 1974

Genres: Biography,Drama,Music

Key Words: character name as title,gustav mahler character,artistic creation,period drama,marriage

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071797/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahler_(film)

Description: Mahler is a movie starring Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, and Lee Montague. Composer Gustav Mahler's life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.

Plot: After a spectacular prelude, the film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), taking one through Mahler's childhood, his brother's suicide, his experience with anti-semitism, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his marital problems, and the death of his young daughter. The film also contains a surreal fantasy sequence involving the anti-Semitic Cosima Wagner (Antonia Ellis), widow of Richard Wagner, whose objections to his taking control of the Court Opera were supposedly removed by his conversion to Catholicism. In the process, the film explores Mahler's music and its relationship to his life. Some outdoor sections of the film were made in Borrowdale, in the English Lake District.