The Music Lovers The Music Lovers The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on "Beloved Friend", a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which include "Elgar" (1962), "Delius: Song of Summer" (1968), "Mahler" (1974) and "Lisztomania" (1975), made from an often idiosyncratic standpoint. Much of the film is without dialogue and the story is presented in flashbacks, nightmares, and fantasy
The Golden Cage (1975 film) The Golden Cage (1975 film) The Golden Cage is a 1975 Australian film about two Turkish migrants in Australia made by the husband and wife team Ayten and Ilhan Kuyululu. It was the first Australian film directed by a woman since the 1930s. The film was shot in March and April 1975, with the aid of $22,500 from the Film, Radio and Television Board of the Australian Council. It failed to achieve commercial distribution. Kuyululu tried to get up a film "The Battle of Broken Hill" about the 1915 Battle of Broken Hill but was unable to secure finance and