Mahler (film)

Mahler
Original Spanish poster
Directed byKen Russell
Written byKen Russell
Produced byRoy Baird
Starring
CinematographyDick Bush
Edited byMichael Bradsell
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byVisual Programme Systems Ltd.
Release date
  • 4 April 1974 (1974-04-04)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£168,000[1][2]–£193,000[3]

Mahler is a 1974 British biographical film based on the life of Austro-Bohemian composer Gustav Mahler. It was written and directed by Ken Russell for Goodtimes Enterprises, and starred Robert Powell as Gustav Mahler and Georgina Hale as Alma Mahler. The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Technical Grand Prize.[4]

  1. ^ Hunter, Charles (2 November 1987). "Russell on his films". The Irish Times. p. 14.
  2. ^ Russell p 167
  3. ^ Alexander Walker, National Heroes: British Cinema in the Seventies and Eighties, Harrap, 1985 p 83
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Mahler". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 26 April 2009.