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Dance of the Seven Veils
Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as “bombastic, sham and hollow”, and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. The film depicts Strauss in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche’s philosophy, he fights duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies. (BFI Screenonline)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, TV Movie
Director: Ken Russell
Actors: Christopher Gable, Gala Mitchell, Imogen Claire, James Mellor, Judith Paris, Kenneth Colley, Maggy Maxwell, Otto Diamant, Sally Bryant, Vladek Sheybal
Country: UK
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