The Music Lovers | |
---|---|
![]() Film Poster | |
Directed by | Ken Russell |
Screenplay by | Melvyn Bragg |
Based on | Beloved Friend, a collection of letters edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck |
Produced by | Ken Russell |
Starring | Richard Chamberlain Glenda Jackson |
Cinematography | Douglas Slocombe |
Edited by | Michael Bradsell |
Music by | André Previn |
Production companies | Russ-Arts Russ Films |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates |
|
Running time | 124 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[1] |
The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on Beloved Friend, a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which include Elgar (1962), Delius: Song of Summer (1968), Mahler (1974) and Lisztomania (1975), made from an often idiosyncratic standpoint.