Wagner & Me

Wagner & Me (2012)

November 2nd, 20121h 29min

Music, Documentary
67%

Overview

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?


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