The Music Lovers (The Lonely Heart)

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Directed by

Ken Russell

Starring (View all)

Richard Chamberlain
Peter Tchaikovsky

Glenda Jackson
Nina

Max Adrian
Nicholas Rubinstein

Christopher Gable
Count Anton Chiluvsky

Kenneth Colley
Modeste Tchaikovsky

Maureen Pryor
Nina's Mother

Andrew Faulds
Davidov

Bruce Robinson
Alexei Sofronov

Written by

Melvyn Bragg
(screenplay)

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Description: Furious, violently bombastic, terribly unsettling, Ken Russell's 1970 biography of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) is a portrait of artistic brilliance beset by the Russian composer's mounting guilt over, well, everything: his homosexuality, his marriage to the increasingly miserable and mad Nina (Glenda Jackson), his hidden attraction to Count Anton Chiluvsky (Christopher Gable), and his suggestively incestuous relations with a sister while growing up. Consumed by his art to the point of explosiveness, Tchaikovsky has increasing difficulty coping with his life, finding some solace in the distant love proffered by ... (more)

Release date: 17 February 1971