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The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson.
Feb 17, 1971 · The Music Lovers: Directed by Ken Russell. With Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Christopher Gable. Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his latent homosexuality by getting married.
In December 1875, Moscow Conservatory music teacher Peter Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) frolics at a snow festival in Moscow, and then passes out in bed with his gay lover, the foppish Count Anton Chiluvsky (Christopher Gable).
The Music Lovers. Roger Ebert January 01, 1971. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Ken Russell 's "The Music Lovers" is an involved and garish private fantasy which Russell, alas, presents to us as the life of Tchaikovsky. Poor Tchaikovsky.
Composer Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain), sees his wife (Glenda Jackson) go mad and dies of cholera.
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Historically speaking, The Music Lovers follows the doomed heterosexual attempts by famed composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) as he rises through the musical world by turning his back on his homosexuality and takes part in a sham of a marriage.
The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell. 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.
