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Lisztomania (1975)

US:: R Comedy Fantasy Music

A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic imagery and a good portion of the film devoted to Liszt's "friendship" with fellow composer Richard Wagner. The film begins during the time when Franz would give piano performance to a crowd of shrieking teenage fans while maintaining affairs with his (multiple!) mistresses. He eventually seeks Princess Carolyne of St. Petersburg (at her invitation), elopes, and, after their marriage is forbidden by the Pope, he embraces the monastic life as an abbé.

Updated May 21 2020

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Runtime: 103 mins Rating: 6.2 Tag Line: The erotic, exotic electrifying rock fantasy... It out-Tommy's TOMMY.

Cast

Oliver Reed

Princess Carolyn's Servant

Aubrey Morris

Manager

Ringo Starr

The Pope

Kenneth Colley

Frederic Chopin

Nell Campbell

Olga Janina

Andrew Faulds

Strauss

Sara Kestelman

Princess Carolyn

Fiona Lewis

Marie d'Agoult