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Director Ken Russell often explores the lives of artists and in turn finds inspiration for his own considerable cinematic creativity. Savage Messiah belongs to that Russell oeuvre and it draws from the filmmaker a work often studied in its pace yet exhilarating in its impact.
It is the story of the short, influential career of pre-World War I French sculptor Henri Gaudier and of his intimate yet platonic friendship with a Polish émigré 20 years his senior. Scott Antony and Dorothy Tutin, perhaps better known to theater aficionados, play the two leads. Movie fans will readily identify the third-billed player: Helen Mirren in a memorable early-career role as a flamboyant, uninhibited suffragette.
Original Release
06/28/1972
US Release
10/01/1972
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Dorothy Tutin | Sophie Brzeska |
Scott Antony | Henri Gaudier |
Helen Mirren | Gosh Boyle |
Lindsay Kemp | Angus Corky |
Michael Gough | M. Gaudier |
John Justin | Lionel Shaw |
Aubrey Richards | Mayor |
Peter Vaughan | Museum Attendant |
Ben Aris | Thomas Buff |
Eleanor Fazan | Mdme. Gaudier |
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Dorothy Tutin | Sophie Brzeska |
Scott Antony | Henri Gaudier |
Helen Mirren | Gosh Boyle |
Lindsay Kemp | Angus Corky |
Michael Gough | M. Gaudier |
John Justin | Lionel Shaw |
Aubrey Richards | Mayor |
Peter Vaughan | Museum Attendant |
Ben Aris | Thomas Buff |
Eleanor Fazan | Mdme. Gaudier |
Otto Diamant | Mr. Saltzman |
Imogen Claire | Mavis Coldstream |
Maggy Maxwell | Tart |
Susanna East | Pippa |
Judith Paris | Kate |
Robert Lang | Major Boyle |
Harry Fielder | Angry Man in Crowd |
Howard Goorney | Gendarme |
Alexei Jawdokimov | Library Student |
Sidney Kean | Annoyed Man in Library |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ken Russell | Producer |
Harry Benn | Producer |