Ken Russell

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Ken Russell helms this graphic 1971 adaptation of a documented witchcraft case, which took place in France in 1634. Outspoken priest Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) finds himself accused of seducing a group of hysterical nuns while in demon form by Mother Superior Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave), who is obsessed with Grandier and driven into a fit of envy when he marries another woman. With the involvement of charismatic exorcist Father Barre (Michael Gothard), the affair turns into a sordid mass exorcism of the tainted convent. With much controversy surrounding its subject matter of religion combined with violence and sex, many cuts were made to the film in order for it to attain certification.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

Guided throughout by the swells and dips of Tchaikovsky's music, Ken Russell's The Music Lovers examines the tragedies of Tchaikovsky's life through opulent and fantastic musical sequences running alongside a narrative of the composer's life between 1875 and 1881. Touching on his disastrous marriage with Antonia Miliukova, his relationship with his patroness Nadezhda von Neck, and his repressed homosexuality, The Music Lovers is anchored by magnetic central performances from Glenda Jackson following her Academy Award for Women in Love, coupled with Richard Chamberlain as a neurotic Tchaikovsky.

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Triple bill of documentary-style BBC dramas from film-maker Ken Russell. Made for the arts programme 'Monitor', 'Elgar' (1962) dramatises the life of English composer Sir Edward Elgar (George McGrath) and tells the story of his music in a series of visualisations. 'The Debussy Film' (1965), which was also made for the 'Monitor' programme, chronicles the life of French composer Claude Debussy (Oliver Reed). Meanwhile, a director (Vladek Sheybal) struggles to make his own film about Debussy's life. Made for the 'Omnibus' arts series, 'Song of Summer' (1968) depicts the last five years of Frederick Delius (Max Adrian)'s life as the devoted, young composer Eric Fenby (Christopher Gable) aids him in completing his final, unfinished scores.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Ken Russell directs this biographical drama starring Rudolf Nureyev as Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino. The film begins at the 31-year-old actor's funeral in 1926 in New York and, using flashbacks, backtracks to his glory days when the former ballroom dancer used his good looks and charm to mould a successful silent movie career and become one of the first male screen idols in Hollywood.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Ken Russell writes and directs this British horror adapted from Bram Stoker's novel. The film follows Angus Flint (Peter Capaldi), a Scottish archaeologist who discovers a strange skull on the site of an old convent. Believing the skull belongs to the d'Ampton Worm, a legendary snakelike creature thought to be slain by the ancestor of local landowner James d'Ampton (Hugh Grant), Angus soon finds himself in danger as a spate of disappearances leads him to think that the evil creature may have returned from the dead to terrorise the locals once more.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Ken Russell directs this adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. Set in the Midlands mining town of Beldover in the 1920s, the film follows the relationships between sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen (Jennie Linden and Jackson) and their husbands Gerald Crich (Reed) and Rupert Birkin (Bates). Following their courtship, the quartet spend time together discussing the meaning of life and love but when they go on holiday together to the Alps the complex and fiery relationship between Gerald and Gudrun begins to boil over which has devastating implications for all involved.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Triple bill of BBC dramas from film-maker Ken Russell. Made for the arts programme 'Monitor', 'Always On Sunday' (1965) charts the life of French post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau (James Lloyd) while 'Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World' (1966) depicts the life of acclaimed American dancer Isadora Duncan (Vivian Pickles). 'Dante's Inferno' (1967) chronicles the complex relationship between the English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Oliver Reed) and his wife Elizabeth Siddal (Judith Paris).<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / with DVD - Double Play</i>