I have always loved Dirk Bogarde. I am pretty sure that the nuns at my boarding school showed this film for us when I was about 17. I fell in love with it all. The music stayed with me all my life. I am in my 82nd year now and so enjoyed watching the film again after all these years.
Beautiful testimony of majestic timeless pianist. His musical talent and art is godly gift to humanity. Thank you from all my heart, Maestro, for what you composed and left behind. 🌹
What’s wonderful about this movie is the long musical extracts of some of Liszt’s most brilliant piano music - particularly for piano and orchestra! As for finding a look-alike for the handsome Liszt, they at least got the ‘handsome' part right. The 'look-alike’ part is a total farce, but so what? The music is what matters, and this Hollywood soundtrack is of the finest quality. Even the piano - a notoriously difficult instrument to record faithfully - sounds magnificently real. The producers and directors obviously cared about music. The pianist is also first-rate, but I won’t name him here in case there are rights issues. I bought this movie on DVD many years ago, but it sounds every bit as good here.
Thank you for this enjoyable film. I also decided to read some online biographies of Franz Liszt which I found truly fascinating. You may too. For things like this the internet rocks.
Enthralling. There really is no other word. Tremendous music. Wonderful acting on the part of everyone, especially Dirk Bogarde (his playing is like nothing I've ever seen by a non-pianist). It almost made me forgive the Elvis hairstyle. I guess they thought Liszt’s signature pageboy wouldn't suit the film.
Evidently he was a real pianist although not the one heard in the movie recording: no one could fake it that well unless they were. I actually love his hair even though it's as historically inaccurate as some of the ballgowns. : )
@annastinehammersdottir1290 Bogarde was not a pianist at all. He learned by sheer hard work and long hours to mimic. In his own words, which he said more than once, he "couldn't play a Jew's harp". His teacher on Song Without End was one Victor Aller who certainly did a phenomenal job.
Capucine the Princess is photographed so wonderfully in this film. We hope beautiful women will have long happy lives. But like so many she had a hard love life in Hollywood that eventually led to her tragic end. It's tough to see her so beautiful in this film realizing what is in store for her. New rule: women like this should always be happy and never grow old.
Merci pour ce merveilleux moment de pur bonheur. Sur fond musical , cette histoire romantique bien réalisée et bien jouée, virtuosement ! Et j’apprécie particulièrement la fougueuse Fantaisie Hongroise …
Sad how she ended it all. We’re here for one purpose.. one duty .. an obligation towards our Creator.. everything else is linked to this short life. If one should refuse to see the light they are bound to get lost in total darkness.
Thank you for posting this movie. I had it on DVD along with the one about the Schumanns and Chopin. Liszt and Chopin are my favorite composers for piano and I have loved playing their music.
There are obvious discrepancies between this film and the real life of the person involved. The Russian noble lady Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and her husband had been separated for many years when she met Liszt in 1847 Kiev, and they should not have attended Liszt's concerts together. Liszt met the Russian Tsar when Liszt went to St. Petersburg for two concerts in 1842 and 1843, much more early than the description of the film. Although the Tsar did not express any particular interest in Liszt's music, there is no credible record to support the film's filming of the Tsar's late arrival (this story was only raised by a writer in Liszt's later years), on the contrary, the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and the Tsar's sister-in-law Elena Pavlovna admired Liszt very much. Liszt was treated with considerable courtesy in Russia, but the Tsar Nicolas who had met Liszt in person never agreed to his mistress's divorce. In accordance with the Russian law at that time , Russian subjects cannot stay abroad for a long time, and the heroine defied this regulation to leave Russia and live with Liszt in Weimar, Germany. The Tsar first confiscated her property that she could not take away, and later canceled her Russian Noble title, the divorce was not successful until the next Tsar came to the throne. But after the divorce and the death of the Princess Wittgenstein's husband, she did not marry Liszt, but maintained a spiritual connection. In her later years, she lived in Rome and focused on studying Catholicism.
As a classically trained pianist myself I must say he "mimics" the playing in a stunning way with his settings and postures, my guess is he must have had some education himself because no one has done it so brilliantly as Bogarde so far, it is the first time I see this film and I always find it very annoying and quite embarrasing to se actors pretending to play piano with their cheap antics etc.
There's another short movie where Dirk plays the piano. It's written by W Somerset Maugham and can be found in a set of short stories called 'Quartet.' Four short stories, the one with Dirk playing piano is called 'The Alien Corn' It is/was on YT.
@MrArtrock Some say a better writer. But I've been a fan since I was 10 and that's a very long time. The day he died was one of the worst in my life. He was only 78. His autobiographies are unputdownable, esp An Orderly Man and A Short Walk from Harrods. His novels are good too but I prefer the former. Princess Caroline and Franz Liszt did not separate for ever. His daughter Cosima by Countess Marie d'Agoult I think - married Richard Wagner. She became the founder of the Wagner Bayreuth Festival.
😅 Hey, don’t be cruel! I didn’t neither. In my guess people back in the 60s were still in the haze of Gone With The Wind to pay attention to another epic romance picture. Remember Age Of Innocence? Another romantic picture which took place about 30 years since this motion picture premiered. I promise you there will be another any time soon for it’s been another 30 years. They think people forget or grow bored but they don’t. 💁🏻♀️ It’s like inheritance.. the old only grows gold.
@@hana.the.writer5074 Are you kidding? Gone With The Wind was made in the 1930s! No one was watching that in the '60s. Those of us who hit our teens in the 1960s were obsessed with the Beatles, hippies and flower children, the Vietnam war etc. Also, this movie isn't only about romance. It's about history.
@@donnabaardsen5372 Teacher, many are changing words due to yt cen srship....and sometimes they play on words. For others, English is their 2nd, third or 4th language. Spelling arr ogance doesn't belong here.
@hana.the.writer5074 You've been to school, right? And you write? Your English is not coorect. Making a few assumptions, aren't you? Who listens to classical music regularly?
@donnabaardsen5372 Talking like a true cultural col onialist... How many English wrote this kind of elaborate music ? Learn from them rather than preach cultural ethno centrism.
@hana.the.writer5074 If you are going to preach, at least write correct English. A writer at that....Aren't you making assumptions ? Who typically listens to classical music ?
Follow what is right and be grateful? 🤔And don’t turn your life miserable? There is a verse in the Holy Quran that reads {It may be that you hate something while it is good for you, and it may be that you love something while it is bad for you. Allah knows, and you do not know.} 2:216 This took me back to Wilson responding back to an issue his neighbor Tm Taylor brought up. 😅
Bogarde took many risks in the roles he played. This film was not a great success, enjoyable though it is to watch. The music of Liszt is secondary to the dramatic trivia. Compare for example The Great Waltz. But in the end Bogarde brought some magic to everything he did.
Allegedly advertized as 'the story of Liszt's life with Dirk Bogarde'. Dirk burnished his hetero credentials later by claiming to have had a big affair with Capucine.
around 06:00, during the Chopin waltz. Obviously, Bogarde does not play piano at all. Or was it the director that forced him to make those idiotic, ridiculous movements with his arms?
No, he wasn't, but does that matter? ...he was Hungarian. He was a talented composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, and teacher - known and loved worldwide...
Bogarde did all he could to get the script workable. Nobody thought it was worse than he did. At least he got 'Hello Beethoven this my friend friend Chopin' removed!
I have always loved Dirk Bogarde. I am pretty sure that the nuns at my boarding school showed this film for us when I was about 17. I fell in love with it all. The music stayed with me all my life. I am in my 82nd year now and so enjoyed watching the film again after all these years.
Thanks for this great movie about the amazing Franz Liszt.
I love the legendary Dirk Bogarde in anything...and how handsome and talented he was!
My adorable actor in my teens, still so now I am a mom !
Anything with Bogarde is worth watching.
absolutely
It’s the movie leading me into Liszt ‘s music . And this movie’s Chinese translation in Taiwan is absolutely sad romantic interpretation: 一曲相思未了情.
Beautiful testimony of majestic timeless pianist. His musical talent and art is godly gift to humanity. Thank you from all my heart, Maestro, for what you composed and left behind. 🌹
Thanks for uploading this beautiful film with a better level of sound. 🌹😃🌹
A beautiful picture! Mr.Bogarde and the music are great.
I'll watch anything with Dirk Bogarde in it. He made some wonderful movies, some very brave for his time. Thank you.
Is this true ? What a sad love story. Incredible props, costumes, bldgs, furnishings and more. Gr8 movie.❤
It is. Liszt is a very famous composer and pianist.
What’s wonderful about this movie is the long musical extracts of some of Liszt’s most brilliant piano music - particularly for piano and orchestra! As for finding a look-alike for the handsome Liszt, they at least got the ‘handsome' part right. The 'look-alike’ part is a total farce, but so what? The music is what matters, and this Hollywood soundtrack is of the finest quality. Even the piano - a notoriously difficult instrument to record faithfully - sounds magnificently real. The producers and directors obviously cared about music. The pianist is also first-rate, but I won’t name him here in case there are rights issues. I bought this movie on DVD many years ago, but it sounds every bit as good here.
Today movies like this could never be equaled, nor duplicated.
Indeed!👍
I really liked this film. Thanks
Mi actor favorito.
Thank you for this enjoyable film. I also decided to read some online biographies of Franz Liszt which I found truly fascinating. You may too. For things like this the internet rocks.
I saw this movie when it was first released love it classical, shows my age my all time favourite!
Enthralling. There really is no other word. Tremendous music. Wonderful acting on the part of everyone, especially Dirk Bogarde (his playing is like nothing I've ever seen by a non-pianist). It almost made me forgive the Elvis hairstyle. I guess they thought Liszt’s signature pageboy wouldn't suit the film.
The hair: funny and apt, bravo😅
Evidently he was a real pianist although not the one heard in the movie recording: no one could fake it that well unless they were. I actually love his hair even though it's as historically inaccurate as some of the ballgowns. : )
I wondered about those gowns!
@annastinehammersdottir1290
Bogarde was not a pianist at all. He learned by sheer hard work and long hours to mimic. In his own words, which he said more than once, he "couldn't play a Jew's harp". His teacher on Song Without End was one Victor Aller who certainly did a phenomenal job.
Capucine the Princess is photographed so wonderfully in this film. We hope beautiful women will have long happy lives. But like so many she had a hard love life in Hollywood that eventually led to her tragic end. It's tough to see her so beautiful in this film realizing what is in store for her. New rule: women like this should always be happy and never grow old.
❤what a great movie and story!
Thank you!❤
Terrific movie. It's also interesting to note it includes Chopin and Wagner
Merci pour ce merveilleux moment de pur bonheur. Sur fond musical , cette histoire romantique bien réalisée et bien jouée, virtuosement ! Et j’apprécie particulièrement la fougueuse Fantaisie Hongroise …
Beautiful and unique Capucine.
Sad how she ended it all.
We’re here for one purpose.. one duty .. an obligation towards our Creator.. everything else is linked to this short life. If one should refuse to see the light they are bound to get lost in total darkness.
A great movie from 1960
What a talented actor!❤
I'm here for the lovely *Derek!*
Thanks CineClips.
Few have noticed, however, that the piano pieces are actually performed so beautifully by the great Jorge Bolet.
There's talent that can never be copied, bless them dearly❤four boards from Broadway!
Again, it's "...broads..."
Thank you for posting this movie. I had it on DVD along with the one about the Schumanns and Chopin. Liszt and Chopin are my favorite composers for piano and I have loved playing their music.
A gem.
Very handsome actor😊
He was.🤗
I love this movie 🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏🙌
Fantastic movie ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It is!👍❤️
Love this movie
Viva Bogarde!
There are obvious discrepancies between this film and the real life of the person involved.
The Russian noble lady Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and her husband had been separated for many years when she met Liszt in 1847 Kiev, and they should not have attended Liszt's concerts together. Liszt met the Russian Tsar when Liszt went to St. Petersburg for two concerts in 1842 and 1843, much more early than the description of the film. Although the Tsar did not express any particular interest in Liszt's music, there is no credible record to support the film's filming of the Tsar's late arrival (this story was only raised by a writer in Liszt's later years), on the contrary, the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and the Tsar's sister-in-law Elena Pavlovna admired Liszt very much.
Liszt was treated with considerable courtesy in Russia, but the Tsar Nicolas who had met Liszt in person never agreed to his mistress's divorce. In accordance with the Russian law at that time , Russian subjects cannot stay abroad for a long time, and the heroine defied this regulation to leave Russia and live with Liszt in Weimar, Germany. The Tsar first confiscated her property that she could not take away, and later canceled her Russian Noble title, the divorce was not successful until the next Tsar came to the throne.
But after the divorce and the death of the Princess Wittgenstein's husband, she did not marry Liszt, but maintained a spiritual connection. In her later years, she lived in Rome and focused on studying Catholicism.
Great movie ❤
As a classically trained pianist myself I must say he "mimics" the playing in a stunning way with his settings and postures, my guess is he must have had some education himself because no one has done it so brilliantly as Bogarde so far, it is the first time I see this film and I always find it very annoying and quite embarrasing to se actors pretending to play piano with their cheap antics etc.
In his memoir "An Orderly Man," he mentions the tutoring and hours of practice he applied for this part. Excellent read. He writes as well as he acts.
@@DelvingEye Thank you I didn't know of his writing abilities, will try to find this memoir ;-)
There's another short movie where Dirk plays the piano. It's written by W Somerset Maugham and can be found in a
set of short stories called 'Quartet.' Four short stories, the one with Dirk playing piano is called 'The Alien Corn' It is/was on YT.
@MrArtrock
Some say a better writer. But I've been a fan since I was 10 and that's a very long time. The day he died was one of the worst in my life. He was only 78. His autobiographies are unputdownable, esp An Orderly Man and A Short Walk from Harrods. His novels are good too but I prefer the former. Princess Caroline and Franz Liszt did not separate for ever. His daughter Cosima by Countess Marie d'Agoult I think - married Richard Wagner. She became the founder of the Wagner Bayreuth Festival.
It reminds me of how well Tom Hulce played the keyboards as Amadeus Mozart. He too worked hard to pull off such incredible 'mimicry'.
Excelente Bogarde
Excellent movie , such a gem.....
I cannot forget the tragic death of Capucine.
OMG how come I didn't know about this film?
I don't know🤔
😅 Hey, don’t be cruel!
I didn’t neither. In my guess people back in the 60s were still in the haze of Gone With The Wind to pay attention to another epic romance picture. Remember Age Of Innocence? Another romantic picture which took place about 30 years since this motion picture premiered. I promise you there will be another any time soon for it’s been another 30 years. They think people forget or grow bored but they don’t. 💁🏻♀️ It’s like inheritance.. the old only grows gold.
It's amazing. Especially for pianists, and those who love history.
@@hana.the.writer5074 Are you kidding? Gone With The Wind was made in the 1930s! No one was watching that in the '60s. Those of us who hit our teens in the 1960s were obsessed with the Beatles, hippies and flower children, the Vietnam war etc. Also, this movie isn't only about romance. It's about history.
Franz Liszt had long flowing hair
Theres talent that can never be copied❤ Four broards from " Broardway"!😊
Spell check before posting. It's "...broads," and "Broadway..."
@@donnabaardsen5372 Teacher, many are changing words due to yt cen srship....and sometimes they play on words. For others, English is their 2nd, third or 4th language. Spelling arr ogance doesn't belong here.
Şahane!…
My husband looked so much like Dirk Bogarde
Questo è senza dubbio bellissimo è il mio genere preferito peccato che non capisco niente grazie comunque
Why not understand anything? You been to school, right? English class is universal I believe.
Absolutely correct, Hana. It is the universal language, and everyone needs to learn it.
@hana.the.writer5074 You've been to school, right? And you write? Your English is not coorect. Making a few assumptions, aren't you? Who listens to classical music regularly?
@donnabaardsen5372 Talking like a true cultural col onialist... How many English wrote this kind of elaborate music ? Learn from them rather than preach cultural ethno centrism.
@hana.the.writer5074 If you are going to preach, at least write correct English. A writer at that....Aren't you making assumptions ? Who typically listens to classical music ?
This is an allegory of something, but I just can't put my finger on it...
Follow what is right and be grateful? 🤔And don’t turn your life miserable?
There is a verse in the Holy Quran that reads {It may be that you hate something while it is good for you, and it may be that you love something while it is bad for you. Allah knows, and you do not know.} 2:216
This took me back to Wilson responding back to an issue his neighbor Tm Taylor brought up. 😅
The wise King Solomon said, "the adulterer destroys his own soul.." (Proverbs 6:32)
@hana.the.writer5074 Don't turn your life 'miserable'. English please?
Где дубляж на русский или хотя бы титры?
Bogarde took many risks in the roles he played. This film was not a great success, enjoyable though it is to watch. The music of Liszt is secondary to the dramatic trivia. Compare for example The Great Waltz. But in the end Bogarde brought some magic to everything he did.
For some reason they dubbed Patricia Morisons speaking voice.... Not sure why they felt the need to do this!
Allegedly advertized as 'the story of Liszt's life with Dirk Bogarde'. Dirk burnished his hetero credentials later by claiming to have had a big affair with Capucine.
I am gone, too dark to see their faces
That's because they only had candles back then ....
@@footbru Exactly. Some of the viewers are too young and woke to appreciate such fine movies.
Yes, the picture quality is terrible.
@@donnabaardsen5372 What does light and dark have go do with youth or w oke... Let's reason instead of belittling everyone, it's good for you.
@@tia904 The picture quality is just as the filmmaker intended.
Una pena que no la subtitularan...
If you want English just hit the cc at the top. If another language then tap the tool symbol to the right and choose captions/auto translate.
around 06:00, during the Chopin waltz. Obviously, Bogarde does not play piano at all. Or was it the director that forced him to make those idiotic, ridiculous movements with his arms?
Lingua italiana?
Telling you they are not ready
unpordanble
Anybody noticed the name of the hair styles? Helen Hunt it read 😀 @1:42
And ?
❤
He reminds me of Ricky Ricardo ❤
Yes, but there's a bit of Fabian, too?
Dirk Bogarde, world-reknown English actor of "Death in Venise" is playing Franz Lizst and he reminds you of Ricky Ricardo? Words fail.
What happened to the audio with this movie?
Downloaded 26 god kidnapped
11? wasnt Liszt Jewish?
No, he wasn't, but does that matter? ...he was Hungarian. He was a talented composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, and teacher - known and loved worldwide...
Mendelssohn was Jewish.
@@polyglot.basketer947
Liszt was Catholic
Hungarian movie is much better. Not this.
Terrible rendition of Franz Liszt.
I like Bogarde but this is a bad film.
It's historical and a really good movie. You're apparently too young and woke to appreciate it.
Bogarde thought so too. Read his autobiography. He hated it. I loved it when I was 14. Still do!
Ludicrous. How could those actors accept this awful script?
Unbelievable. Why would anyone waste their time posting snark about a movie they don't like and/or understand?
Well, Marie, my guess is you're too young and woke to appreciate a movie like this. Today's cheap, shallow and easy entertainment is your speed.
Bogarde did all he could to get the script workable. Nobody thought it was worse than he did. At least he got 'Hello Beethoven this my friend friend Chopin' removed!
I have just turned 80. On the 5th of March actually.
For the money
Fantastic movie.