Wagner & Me

APPROPIATE

2012 / 89min.

Rating6.7

Genres

Music

Documentary

Synopsis

Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer, Richard Wagner. As a life-long fan can Stephen, who is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust, salvage Wagner's music from its dark associations with anti-Semitism and Hitler?

Directors

Actors

Stephen Fry

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