La perdizione (1974)
Il compositore austriaco Gustav Mahler, durante un lungo viaggio in treno verso Vienna e in compagnia della moglie, rivive i suoi ricordi e i suoi incubi peggiori. Dall'infanzia in una famiglia ebraica che desiderava per lui il prestigio come musicista fino alla sua conversione al cattolicesimo per agevolare il proprio sogno di diventare un mostro sacro della musica, lontano dal terrore di un crescente antisemitismo germanofono
Direttore: Ken Russell
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Robert Powell as Gustav Mahler |
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Georgina Hale as Alma Mahler |
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Lee Montague as Bernhard Mahler |
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Miriam Karlin as Aunt Rosa |
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Rosalie Crutchley as Marie Mahler |
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Richard Morant as Max |
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Angela Down as Justine Mahler |
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Ronald Pickup as Nick |
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Peter Eyre as Otto Mahler |
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Dana Gillespie as Anna von Mildenburg |
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David Collings as Hugo Wolfe |
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Kenneth Colley as Krenek |
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Antonia Ellis as Cosima Wagner |
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Oliver Reed as Train Conductor |
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Andrew Faulds as Doctor on Train |
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George Coulouris as Doctor Roth |
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Arnold Yarrow as Grandfather |
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Elaine Delmar as Princess |
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Otto Diamant as Professor Sladky |
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Berwick Kaler as Dancing Officer at Mahler's Cremation (uncredited) |
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Victoria Russell as Girl Running Alongside Train (uncredited) |
| Directing | Ken Russell | Director |
| Writing | Ken Russell | Writer |
| Production | Roy Baird | Producer |
| Production | Sanford Lieberson | Executive Producer |
| Production | David Puttnam | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Dick Bush | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Michael Bradsell | Editor |
| Art | Ian Whittaker | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Shirley Russell | Costume Design |
| Editing | Stuart Baird | Assistant Editor |