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Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

2011 EN 137 min

Overview

The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest' who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression". He hated the words used to his most famous tune "I Vow to Thee My Country" because it was the opposite of what he believed, and died before the age of 60 - broken and disillusioned.

Release date

12/04/2011

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Language

EN

Runtime

137 min

Website

www.bbc.co.uk

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