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
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Brahms and the Little Singing Girls Cast
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Character |
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Warren Mitchell
He was 98, 89 years old when he died
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as Johannes Brahms |
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls Crew
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Department |
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Tony Palmer as Director. He was 82 (now 82) years old
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Directing |
