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Writer:
Ken Russell (writer)
Release Date:
February 1975 (USA)
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Both trifles and structure are tossed out the door by director Ken Russell in this film. Here, historical content matters not so much as metaphors...
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Won BAFTA Film Award.
Another 2 wins
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1 nomination
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Mahler is one of Ken Russell's best films.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert Powell | ... | Gustav Mahler |
| Georgina Hale | ... | Alma Mahler |
| Lee Montague | ... | Bernhard Mahler |
| Miriam Karlin | ... | Aunt Rosa |
| Rosalie Crutchley | ... | Marie Mahler |
| Gary Rich | ... | Young Gustav |
| Richard Morant | ... | Max |
| Angela Down | ... | Justine Mahler |
| Antonia Ellis | ... | Cosima Wagner |
| Ronald Pickup | ... | Nick |
| Peter Eyre | ... | Otto Mahler |
| Dana Gillespie | ... | Anna von Mildenburg |
| George Coulouris | ... | Doctor Roth |
| David Collings | ... | Hugo Wolf |
| Arnold Yarrow | ... | Grandfather |
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115 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Cameo: [Oliver Reed] a train conductor blowing a whistle as Mahler's train is about to pull out of the station.
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Factual errors: When Mahler's train leaves St. Pölten, a sign is visible identifying the town as "Saint Pölten". Yet, the German long script for the town is "Sankt Pölten".
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Quotes:
Mahler:
You've already wasted three minutes of my time! Now why don't you do what I do to keep the New York Philharmonic in time: beat it!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in A British Picture (1989) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Sunset
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Yes, you had to have developed an appetite for Ken Russell's visions. Mahler works beautifully for me. I happen to like Mahler's music and historically, Russell, captures the juice of this man's genius.
Russell moves behind the music, into the skin of Mahler, his wife, Alma, and the tragic circumstances that surround them.
Mahler would have smiled when experiencing Russell's image of him. Thomas Mann's book, Death in Venice, is about Mahler, and Russell includes the railroad station scene, with the young boy and the business man, courting a bit, and then the camera, goes to Mahler, who understands whats going on here, and smiles, in amusement. Clever touch for Russell, but is most likely lost on the general audience. Not to say Mahler liked little boys, but his sexual orientation was ambiguous, at best.
Alma was like that, and the officer, whom she was having an affair, was most likely that way? Mahler went to see Freud over this affair in reality. Russell always takes us inside the psychological drama and visualizes, the inner Hell, Mahler feared regarding his wife and his coming death.
Alma had affairs after Mahler's death, and was a star f...ER, and had marriages and affairs with Europe's most brilliant geniuses, for real. She loved bright men, but loved herself, the most, I think? Later Erich Wolfgang Korngold, wrote a violin concerto for her, in Hollywood.
The film's tracking of the creative process regarding the music, is most likely right on, though the little composing hut, was not on the lake shore, but on a hill top, overlooking the lake.
Over all the film is historically correct, and emotionally, shows it as it most likely was for them as a famous couple. Alma did harbor jealousy, and stopped composing her music. Of late a CD has been released of her music and her music is acceptable, but pales compared to her husband's giant compositions.
I would have liked for Russell to include Richard Strauss's music, and their personal friendship. Both composers often talked about their troubles with their music and their wives. Strauss and Mahler are often similar in their musical genius, and understood each other's vision musically. It would have been nice to have the two together more in this film's history.
You have to have a taste for Mahler and Russell, to really get the humor and the brilliance that lies just beneath of surface. At least, Mahler, did not turn out to be another TOMMY...ha Bravo to Ken Russell and I am so glad he came along in my life time. Cast was perfect as well.