Omnibus - Delius: Song of Summer (15 September 1968) (XviD)

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Delius: Song of Summer
UK 1968 Dir Ken Russell, b&w, 72 minutes



Crew:
Producer Ken Russell
Scenario Ken Russell, Eric Fenby
Based on the book Delius As I Knew Him by Eric Fenby
Photography Dick Bush
Editor Roger Crittenden
Music Frederick Delius
Additional Music specially composed by Eric Fenby


Cast:
Frederick Delius Max Adrian
Jelka Delius Maureen Pryor
Eric Fenby Christopher Gable
Percy Grainger David Collings
Girl next door Geraldine Sherman
Maid Elizabeth Ercy
Bruder Roger Worrod


Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC in the 1960's, 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, and co-scripted by Russell with Fenby himself, it traces the last years of the composer Frederick Delius (1862-1934). By 1928 Delius, blind and paralysed from tertiary syphilis, was living with his wife Jelka at Grez-sur-Loing, some 40 miles outside Paris. Fenby, a young composer and, like Delius, Yorkshire-born, devoted five years of his life to helping the aged composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head.


Rip Specs
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(Ripped by Dahlmann from the bfi release, which also includes commentary by Russell)

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