
Born to Be Blue(2015)
Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.



Robert Powell
Gustav Mahler

Georgina Hale
Alma Mahler

Lee Montague
Bernhard Mahler

Miriam Karlin
Aunt Rosa

Rosalie Crutchley
Marie Mahler

Richard Morant
Max

Angela Down
Justine Mahler

Ronald Pickup
Nick

Peter Eyre
Otto Mahler

Dana Gillespie
Anna von Mildenburg
Mahler is a drama, music film released in 1974 exploring themes of classical music, biography, historical figure, mahler. Directed by Ken Russell, it stars Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague. Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
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