Holst: The Planets - by Ken Russell (1983)

"Planets" - a documentary film by Ken Russell with the music of composer Gustav Holst in the performance of the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra.
Collage assembled from fragments of films, newsreels and advertisements from around the world and covers a wide period of time. Russell has received special permission from the composer's daughter, where she set a condition not to use pictures that show the atrocities of war. Therefore, we can only imagine what would be the choice of masters for the first theme: Mars.
The film is completely devoid of narration and voice acting, but his musical arrangement, which is based on the plot, the narrative has the same meaning as the video sequence, and, in fact, creates the atmosphere.
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In this orchestral suite of 7 pieces. Each planet of the solar system (except Earth and Pluto) is devoted to his own plays, which, in principle, quite distinct (ie it can be executed and obeyed and separately).
The composer was influenced by fashionable at the time of astrology.
Movement of each of the seven planets, in his opinion, affects the human psyche and largely explains the ideas and emotions of the time. So Earth is not represented.



production land: Greay britain
Run time: 52 min

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1980 Special subjects DVD-Rip HDTV Documentary Art-house

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