The Debussy Film
1965 British film
- 18 May 1965 (1965-05-18)
Running time
French
The Debussy Film: Impressions of the French Composer (also known simply as The Debussy Film) is a 1965 British television documentary film directed by Ken Russell, and co-written by Melvyn Bragg. Produced for the BBC's Monitor, it was the first of five collaborations between director Russell and star Oliver Reed. Russell cast Reed following Reed's performance in The System.[1]
Plot
A film company shoots a dramatised account of the life of the French composer Claude Debussy.
Cast
- Oliver Reed as Claude Debussy
- Vladek Sheybal as Director/Pierre Louys
- Annette Robertson as Gaby
- Iza Teller as Madame Bardac
- Penny Service as Lily
Production
Debussy's estate disliked the film and prevented repeat screenings.[2]
References
External links
- The Debussy Film at IMDb
- The Debussy Film at BFI Screenonline
- Article on film at Diabolique Magazine
- Article on film at Dangerous Mind
- The Debussy Film at Letterbox DVD
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Works directed by Ken Russell
- French Dressing (1964)
- Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
- Women in Love (1969)
- The Music Lovers (1971)
- The Devils (1971)
- The Boy Friend (1971)
- Savage Messiah (1972)
- Mahler (1974)
- Tommy (1975)
- Lisztomania (1975)
- Valentino (1977)
- Altered States (1980)
- Crimes of Passion (1984)
- Gothic (1986)
- Salome's Last Dance (1988)
- The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
- The Rainbow (1989)
- Women & Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
- Whore (1991)
- Mindbender (1995)
- The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002)
- Trapped Ashes (2006)
- John Betjeman: A Poet in London (1959)
- Gordon Jacob (1959)
- A House in Bayswater (1959)
- Pop Goes the Easel (1962)
- Elgar (1962)
- Watch the Birdie (1963)
- Bartok (1964)
- The Dotty World of James Lloyd (1964)
- The Debussy Film (1965)
- Always on Sunday (1965)
- Don't Shoot the Composer (1966)
- Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966)
- Dante's Inferno (1967)
- Song of Summer (1968)
- Dance of the Seven Veils (1970)
- William and Dorothy (1976)
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1978)
- The Planets (1983)
- Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait (1984)
- Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988)
- The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990)
- The Mystery of Dr Martinu (1992)
- Alice in Russialand (1994)
- Elgar: Fantasy on a Composer on a Bicycle (2002)
- Peep Show (1956)
- Amelia and the Angel (1958)
- Segment "Nessun Dorma" in Aria (1987)
- The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch (1993)
- The Lion's Mouth (2000)
- A Kitten for Hitler (2007)
- Prisoner of Honor (1991)
- The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992)
- Lady Chatterley (mini-series, 1993)
- Ken Russell's Treasure Island (1995)
- Dogboys (1998)
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