Dance of the Seven Veils

Russells composer biopics were usually labours of love This was the opposite he regarded Strausss music as bombastic sham and hollow and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime The film depicts Strauss in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsches philosophy he fights duels with jealous husbands literally batters his critics into submission with his music and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies BFI Screenonline