Release Date: December 7, 2012 (NY)
Studio: First Run Features
Director: Patrick McGrady
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Stephen Fry
Genre: Documentary
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Plot Summary: In his new documentary film director Patrick McGrady follows one of Britain's most loved performers, actor and writer Stephen Fry ("Wilde," "Bones"), as he explores his life-long passion for the world’s most controversial composer: Richard Wagner. As a Jew, when Fry enters the world of the Wagner creations he loves, he is intensely aware that it is the same music that was also loved by and inspired Adolf Hitler. Can he disentangle the music from the composer's dark associations with anti-Semitism and Nazis?

Fry’s Wagnerian quest begins in southern Germany where he is granted unique access to the 2009 Bayreuth’s Festival, a legendary annual opera event held in a theatre built by Wagner himself. He also travels to other key locations in Wagner's turbulent life. In Switzerland he discovers the origins of Wagner’s masterpiece The Ring Cycle. In Bavaria he marvels at the fairytale castle inspired by Wagner’s music, and in St. Petersburg meets the legendary conductor Valery Gergiev at the Marinsky Theatre to discover why Wagner fascinated Russian audiences.

In Nuremberg he investigates how Hitler appropriated Wagner’s music, and in London meets a cellist who played in the prisoners’ orchestra at Auschwitz – where some of Fry’s relatives died. What will she think of his passion for Hitler’s favorite artist?

Animated by Fry’s trademark wit and intelligence, and featuring a soundtrack of Wagner’s extraordinary music, Wagner & Me is a provocative and enjoyable exploration of the life and legacy of one of history’s great creative geniuses.

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