Wagner

1983 · 466 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 654 VOTES · DIR. Tony Palmer

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Overview

A huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria, to the final triumph at Bayreuth.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,565 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:30 'Let me read you this from the Dresdner Anzeiger
00:10:33 In the event I said thank you and gave my royal master the lot again.
00:16:37 Unfortunately we can't give it.
00:22:12 Why?
00:26:43 You, Minna, you didn't even stay.
00:32:37 must be only an ornament, not a limitation.
00:39:29 Under no man, sir, unless we elect him.
00:49:02 'But it did have a thriving music society.
00:53:41 You have of course read Wolfram von Eschenbach, the Northern Sagas?
00:59:25 Deep inside the cake, they twitter and wriggle and copulate and kiss and suck
01:04:40 I know it.
01:10:19 I do feel that.
01:15:19 Mrs Taylor...
01:21:02 In my letters, I should address her formally, as to a stranger met in the street. Wife?
01:25:50 If you are not prepared to accept that France is the cultural leader of Europe
01:31:57 Small and bent of course, deformed, and he hobbles.
01:36:42 I suffer from...
01:45:08 Frau Wagner, she simply doesn't understand the way he writes and writes
01:50:25 It's a gold pen, given to me by Frau Wesendonck.
01:59:39 would you ever hear utterance from me?
02:08:16 Mine are that I'm overwhelmed by the beauty of the verse and the emotion.
02:17:47 'and demanded the biggest apartment that could be found.
02:25:30 'At the summer theatre, Lerchenfeld, the rain came down and I left
02:33:29 Er...

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,565
Dialogue density3.4 lines / min
First line00:01:30
Final line02:33:29

Production Record

DirectorTony Palmer
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes654