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    Unique ID Code: 0000020822
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    Added on: 25/7/2001 01:51
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    Delius: Song of Summer (Region Free)

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    A Ken Russell film
    Certificate: PG
    Running Time: 72 mins
    Retail Price: $19.99
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    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.

    Special Features:
    Interactive Menus
    Scene Access
    Director`s Commentary
    Biography

    Video Tracks:
    Standard 1.33:1

    Audio Tracks:
    Dolby Digital Mono English

    Directed By:
    Ken Russell

    Written By:


    Starring:
    Maureen Pryor
    Norman James
    Christopher Gable
    Elizabeth Ercy
    David Collings
    Max Adrian

    Soundtrack By:
    Percy Grainger
    Frederick Delius

    Director of Photography:
    Dick Bush

    Editor:
    Roger Crittenden

    Costume Designer:
    Shirley Russell

    Production Designer:
    Judy Steel

    Producer:
    Ken Russell

    Distributor:
    BFI Video

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