Film

Brahms and the Little Singing Girls

1996 · 1h 28m · Drama

This is Palmer's highly controversial portrait of Brahms - a film that exploded the familiar image of 'stodgy old bearded Brahms' - a man whose first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg where he had grown up, and who at the end of his life lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his ‘little singing girls'. It is a celebration - of Brahms' unabashed, life-enhancing, sexually explosive music. Warren Mitchell portrays the composer

Warren Mitchell

Johannes Brahms

Edward Michie

Brahms as a boy

Lori Piitz

Clara

Sean Boyce

Brahms as a young man

Kate Penning

Julie

• Tony PalmerDirector
• Mike BluettProducer

Release date

January 1, 1996

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Drama