Ken Russell’s controversial interpretation of the life of composer Richard Strauss is part truth and part fiction. It’s a bizarre series of Monty Python-esque sketches that ridicule primarily Strauss’ tone poem based on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, but it throws in some Shakespeare, Don Quixote and whatever else was occupying Russell’s mind at time of conception (that'll be the flagellating monks, horny nuns and comparisons between Christianity and Nazism then). If you hadn't guessed already, it’ll be damn offensive to many people and is still banned in its current form.
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