God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

🎞️ Movie 119 min GB
โ˜… 7.1 /10 1985

Shortly before death, George Fredrick Handel (1685-1759), old, blind, portly, sometimes raging and usually reflective, narrates a look back over his life. As he tells his story, his music plays as background or is performed on screen. As a youth, he is Buck, a prodigy, attractive to women and to patrons. He travels from Halle to Italy then to London, where he finds himself completely at home. He composes constantly. He pleases princes and dukes; he displeases prelates and critics. He's in court to defend his copyright. He makes and loses money; he engenders a cat fight between two divas. At the end of his life, he observes that he helped the English with their religion.

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Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard
Georg Friedrich Handel
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Dave Griffiths
Middle-aged Handel
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Christopher Bramwell
Young Handel
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Ranald Neilson
The Boy Handel
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Tracey Spence
Mary Granville
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Anne Downie
Vittoria Turquini
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Simon Donald
Prince Ruspoll
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Peter Stanger
Domenico Scarlatti
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Beth Robens
Handel's Mother
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Mitzi Mueller
Francesca Cuzzoni
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Nicholas D. Knowland
Cinematographer