Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter 2011 Directed by Tony Palmer
The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest' who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression". He hated the words used to his most famous tune "I Vow to Thee My Country" because it was the opposite of what he believed, and died before the age of 60 - broken and disillusioned.
Country
United Kingdom
Production Country
United Kingdom
Production Company
Isolde Films
Release Date 12 April 2011
137 mins
