Wagner & Me (2012)
• November 2nd, 2012 • 1h 29min
Music, Documentary
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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