Delius: Song of Summer (Region Free)

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Review of Delius:Song of Summer
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Mark Oates

A Ken Russell film
Certificate: PG
Running Time: 72 mins
Retail Price: $19.99
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Content Type: Musical Recording

Synopsis:
Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC in the sixties, `Song of Summer` is an immensely moving story of sacrifice, idealism and musical genius.
Based on Eric Fenby`s 1936 memoir Delius as I knew him, it traces the last years of Frederick Delius, and Fenby`s dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head.

There are terrific performances from Max Adrian as the monstrous, tyrannical, tormented Delius, Maureen Pryor as his devoted, long-suffering wife, Jelka, and Christopher Gable (remarkably, in his first screen acting role) as the shy, intense, talented young composer thrust into this strange household.

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