Watch Song of Summer (1968) Free Online

Release Date: 1968

Cast: Maureen Pryor, Roger Worrod, David Collings, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian

Categories: Movies, Documentary, Experimental Film, Musical Drama, Biopic [Feature], Music, Drama Film

Song of Summer is a 1968 black-and-white film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, who also plays a cameo role as a philandering priest. It portrays the final six years of the life of Frederick Delius, when he was blind and paralysed, and when Eric Fenby lived with the composer and his wife Jelka as Delius's amanuensis. The title is borrowed from the Delius tone poem A Song of Summer, which is heard along with other Delius works in the film. It has received wide praise since its first screening, and Ken Russell himself said it was the best film he ever made and he would not have... MORE

Song of Summer is a 1968 black-and-white film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, who also plays a cameo role as a philandering priest. It portrays the final six years of the life of Frederick Delius, when he was blind and paralysed, and when Eric Fenby lived with the composer and his wife Jelka as Delius's amanuensis. The title is borrowed from the Delius tone poem A Song of Summer, which is heard along with other Delius works in the film. It has received wide praise since its first screening, and Ken Russell himself said it was the best film he ever made and he would not have done a single shot differently. It starred Max Adrian as Delius, Christopher Gable as Fenby, and Maureen Pryor as Delius’s wife Jelka. The cinematography was by Dick Bush, and the editing was by Roger Crittenden. It was shot on black-and-white 35mm film rather than videotape. It was first broadcast on BBC television on 15 September 1968 as part of its Omnibus series. In 2001, a slightly shortened version was released on DVD, as Delius: Song of Summer. Song of Summer was based on Eric Fenby’s 1936 memoir Delius As I Knew Him (re-released in 1966), which recounts his experience of offering his LESS