The Debussy Film

The Debussy Film
The Debussy Film
Directed by	Ken Russell
Written by	Melvyn Bragg; Ken Russell
Produced by	Ken Russell
Starring	Oliver Reed; Vladek Sheybal
Cinematography	Ken Westbury
Edited by	Allen Tyrer
Music by	Claude Debussy
Production; company	British Broadcasting Company
Distributed by	British Broadcasting Company
Release date	18 May 1965;
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	English; French

The Debussy Film: Impressions of the French Composer (also known simply as The Debussy Film) is a 1965 British television documentary film directed by Ken Russell, and co-written by Melvyn Bragg. Produced for the BBC's Monitor, it was the first of five collaborations between director Russell and star Oliver Reed. Russell cast Reed following Reed's performance in The System.^[1]

Plot[edit]

A film company shoots a dramatised account of the life of the French composer Claude Debussy.

Cast[edit]

Oliver Reed as Claude Debussy
Vladek Sheybal as Director/Pierre Louys
Annette Robertson as Gaby
Iza Teller as Madame Bardac
Penny Service as Lily

Production[edit]

Debussy's estate disliked the film and prevented repeat screenings.^[2]

References[edit]

^ Oliver Burns--at the Stake and at Film Critics Kramer, Carol. Chicago Tribune 22 Aug 1971: e3.
^ KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEBUSSY FILM (1965) Tibbetts, John C. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television; Dorchester-on-Thames Vol. 25, Iss. 1, (Mar 2005): 81-99.

External links[edit]

The Debussy Film at IMDb
The Debussy Film at BFI Screenonline
Article on film at Diabolique Magazine
Article on film at Dangerous Mind
The Debussy Film at Letterbox DVD

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[1] Oliver Burns--at the Stake and at Film Critics Kramer, Carol. Chicago Tribune 22 Aug 1971: e3.

[2] KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEBUSSY FILM (1965) Tibbetts, John C. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television; Dorchester-on-Thames Vol. 25, Iss. 1, (Mar 2005): 81-99.

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v t e Works directed by Ken Russell
Films	French Dressing (1964) Billion Dollar Brain (1967) Women in Love (1969) The Music Lovers (1971) The Devils (1971) The Boy Friend (1971) Savage Messiah (1972) Mahler (1974) Tommy (1975) Lisztomania (1975) Valentino (1977) Altered States (1980) Crimes of Passion (1984) Gothic (1986) Salome's Last Dance (1988) The Lair of the White Worm (1988) The Rainbow (1989) Women & Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) Whore (1991) Mindbender (1995) The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002) Trapped Ashes (2006)
Documentaries	John Betjeman: A Poet in London (1959) Gordon Jacob (1959) A House in Bayswater (1959) Pop Goes the Easel (1962) Elgar (1962) Watch the Birdie (1963) Bartok (1964) The Dotty World of James Lloyd (1964) The Debussy Film (1965) Always on Sunday (1965) Don't Shoot the Composer (1966) Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966) Dante's Inferno (1967) Song of Summer (1968) Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) William and Dorothy (1976) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1978) The Planets (1983) Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait (1984) Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988) The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990) The Mystery of Dr Martinu (1992) Alice in Russialand (1994) Elgar: Fantasy on a Composer on a Bicycle (2002)
Shorts	Peep Show (1956) Amelia and the Angel (1958) Segment "Nessun Dorma" in Aria (1987) The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch (1993) The Lion's Mouth (2000) A Kitten for Hitler (2007)
TV movies	Prisoner of Honor (1991) The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992) Lady Chatterley (mini-series, 1993) Ken Russell's Treasure Island (1995) Dogboys (1998)