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Film Description
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter is Tony Palmer’s new documentary on the composer Gustav Holst.
The first ever film about an extraordinary man - who taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, allied himself during WWI with a ‘red priest’ who pinned on the door of his church 'prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression', who hated the words used to his most famous tune 'I Vow to Thee My Country' because it was the opposite of what he believed, who distributed a newspaper called The Socialist Worker, whose music - especially ‘The Planets’ - owed little or nothing to anyone, least of all the ‘English folk song tradition’, but who was also a very great composer who died of cancer, broken and disillusioned, before he reached 60.
