Savage Messiah

feature film, 1972.

DIRECTED BY: Ken Russell

Savage Messiah

CAST:
Dorothy Tutin (Sophie Brzeska),
Scott Antony (Henri Gaudier),
Helen Mirren (Gosh Boyle),
Lindsay Kemp (Angus Corky),
Michael Gough (M. Gaudier)

SCRIPT:
Christopher Logue (prema knjize H.S. Edea)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Dick Bush

Synopsis:
This is a biography of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeski, who died at the age of 23 during WW I. He was born in France but lived and worked in Bristol, Nürnberg, Munich, Paris and London where he significantly influenced artists of that time. The film focuses on his relationship with the much older Polish noblewoman Sophie Brzeska. Even though they never got married, as a token of his love he used her last name and she inherited his work.

35mm, color, 103 min

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