Brahms and the Little Singing Girls

(1996)

★ 1 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1996

Runtime: 88 мин

Director: Tony Palmer

Cast: Warren Mitchell, Edward Michie, Lori Piitz, Sean Boyce, Kate Penning

Plot

This is Palmer's highly controversial portrait of Brahms - a film that exploded the familiar image of 'stodgy old bearded Brahms' - a man whose first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg where he had grown up, and who at the end of his life lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his ‘little singing girls'. It is a celebration - of Brahms' unabashed, life-enhancing, sexually explosive music. Warren Mitchell portrays the composer