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Release Date: 1988

Cast: Twiggy, Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Rietti, Barry Douglas, Shabana Azmi, Shirley MacLaine, Lee Montague, Jeremy Sinden, Roger Hammond, Greg Ellis, Leigh Lawson, Navin Chowdhry ...MORE

Cast: Twiggy, Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Rietti, Barry Douglas, Shabana Azmi, Shirley MacLaine, Lee Montague, Jeremy Sinden, Roger Hammond, Greg Ellis, Leigh Lawson, Navin Chowdhry, Geoffrey Bayldon ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Coming of age

Madame Sousatzka is a 1988 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens. Bengali immigrant Sushila Sen (Shabana Azmi) lives in London with her son Manek (Navin Chowdhry) who is musically gifted. She supports them both as a caterer of Indian food, while Manek studies the piano with Madame Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine), who is a Russian-American immigrant. Madame Sousatzka, while highly talented, never succeeded as a pianist and thus lives through her students, particularly talented... MORE

Madame Sousatzka is a 1988 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens. Bengali immigrant Sushila Sen (Shabana Azmi) lives in London with her son Manek (Navin Chowdhry) who is musically gifted. She supports them both as a caterer of Indian food, while Manek studies the piano with Madame Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine), who is a Russian-American immigrant. Madame Sousatzka, while highly talented, never succeeded as a pianist and thus lives through her students, particularly talented ones such as Manek. Manek is soon forced to choose between Madame Sousatzka and his mother who both compete for his attention. The book, Madame Souzatzka is based on the experiences of Harold Rubens, child prodigy pianist, who studied with Levinskaya, from whom Souzatzka was created. Harold Rubens was born in Cardiff, Wales, UK in 1918, to parents of Latvian descent. He studied with Levinska from the age of seven. The film was released in U.S. theaters on October 14, 1988. Sometime after its theatrical run, the movie was released on videocassette by MCA Home Video in 1989. The movie has not been LESS