Wagner (TV Mini-Series 1981)

TV Mini-Series   |    |  Biography, Drama, History

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A huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria, to the final ... See full summary »

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7 August 2000 | fxphreak
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| Unedited it works much better
I quickly bought the 300 minute version listed here when it first came available. Although I love Wagner and his music I almost couldn't get through the tapes. Terrible stuff. How could they do this? Then I found the answer.

The original mini-series was 9 hours long. They cut FOUR HOURS out of the story. I've seen the whole series and now I can say -- GREAT STUFF. Well, if your a Wagner fan to begin with, that is. It really is MUCH better than the edited version.

I hope I never get an enemy so evil I want to give them my 300 minute Wagner tape set. I hope I find a real friend who will buy me the 9 hour version as a gift!

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Trivia

Filmed in more than two hundred separate locations, over seven months, and in six countries.

Goofs

When Wagner speaks at the political meeting, the vertical German flags in the background have the wrong sequence of black-gold-red, while the ones draping the podium are the correct black-red-gold ones. (The flags are the 1832 Hambach Festival flag - the modern German flag dating from 1848 was developed from the Hambach colours)

Alternate Versions

The version screened on British TV features Andrew Cruickshank as narrator, not Donald Moffat.

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Genres

Biography | Drama | History | Music

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Release Date:

December 1983

Language

English

Country of Origin

UK, Austria, Hungary

Filming Locations

Lucerne, Switzerland

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