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Release Date:
29 January 1976 (Netherlands) moreTagline:
The erotic, exotic electrifying rock fantasy... It out-Tommy's TOMMY.Plot:
A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic... more | full synopsisUser Comments:
Classic Ken Russell more (23 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Roger Daltrey | ... | Franz Liszt | |
| Sara Kestelman | ... | Princess Carolyn | |
| Paul Nicholas | ... | Richard Wagner | |
| Ringo Starr | ... | The Pope | |
| Rick Wakeman | ... | Thor | |
| John Justin | ... | Count d'Agoult | |
| Fiona Lewis | ... | Marie d'Agoult | |
| Veronica Quilligan | ... | Cosima | |
| Nell Campbell | ... | Olga Janina | |
| Andrew Reilly | ... | Hans Von Buelow | |
| David English | ... | Captain | |
| Imogen Claire | ... | George Sand | |
| Rikki Howard | ... | Countess | |
| David Corti | ... | Daniel | |
| Anulka Dziubinska | ... | Lola Montez |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
103 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby (3 channels)Certification:
Netherlands:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A | Australia:M | Finland:K-18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | UK:X (original rating) | UK:18 (video rating)Fun Stuff
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The "Millionairess" and "Most Promising Actress" as addressed in the concert scene are none other than Madame von Meck and Alma Mahler from Ken Russell's previous films The Music Lovers (1970) and Mahler (1974). moreQuotes:
Liszt: I know it sounds improbable, Your Holiness, but I...The Pope: But truth is stranger than fiction? We've kept going for two thousand years on that one.
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This film is brilliant! Casting Roger Daltry (a rock star of his day) as Franz Liszt (a rock star of HIS day) was a master stroke (though Russell seemed to always like working with the same people again and again and he had done Tommy with Daltry). Ringo star in a cameo as the Pope was a crack-up and Wagner as a vampire stealing themes from Liszt was a trip as well. There is a wonderful "silent movie" section with Daltry doing a Chaplinesque sequence which covers several years in Switzerland and incredible sequences of him as a performer dazzling teeny-bopper girls in crinolines and bonnets--all screaming and swooning to whatever he plays. The piece-de-resistance is the sequence at the end with Liszt in a rocket ship "powered" by several former loves swooping down to destroy a Naziesque Wagnerian Frankenstein Monster who is laying waste to the world with an electric guitar/tommy-gun. This film is so over-the-top I had to have a copy for my collection!