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Mahler is a British film of genre Drama directed by Ken Russell released in USA on 1 february 1975 with Robert Powell

Mahler (1974)

Mahler
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Released in USA 1 february 1975
Length 1h55
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Musical
Rating69% 3.4960353.4960353.4960353.4960353.496035

Mahler is a 1974 biographical film based on the life of 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.

Synopsis

After a spectacular prelude, the film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), taking one through Mahler's childhood, his brother's suicide, his experience with anti-semitism, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his marital problems, and the death of his young daughter. The film also contains a surreal fantasy sequence involving the anti-Semitic Cosima Wagner (Antonia Ellis), widow of Richard Wagner, whose objections to his taking control of the Court Opera were supposedly removed by his conversion to Catholicism. In the process, the film explores Mahler's music and its relationship to his life.

Actors

Robert Powell

(Gustav Mahler)Georgina Hale

(Alma Mahler)Lee Montague

(Bernhard Mahler)Miriam Karlin

(Aunt Rosa)Ronald Pickup

(Nick)
And :
Rosalie Crutchley
Dana Gillespie
George Coulouris
Kenneth Colley
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