Brahms and the Little Singing Girls 1996 Directed by Tony Palmer
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
Cast
Warren Mitchell
Johannes Brahms
Edward Michie
Brahms as a boy
Lori Piitz
Clara
Sean Boyce
Brahms as a young man
Kate Penning
Julie
