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FALLEN ANGEL: GRAM PARSONS



Gandulf Hennig

Country of production: Germany/UK
Year: 2004
Language: English
Mins: 92

Production company: Spothouse Productions
Producers: Gandulf Hennig, Alfred Holighaus
Script: Gandulf Hennig, Sid Griffin
Cinematography: Boris Becker
Editing: Birgt Mild
Music: Gram Parsons

Source: SpotHouse Gmbh
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 46,
10589 Berlin, Germany
Tel: 49 30 34901340
Fax: 49 30 34901341
e-mail: office@spothouse-productions.com


Singer/songwriter Gram Parsons died tragically young. This fascinating biopic, blending performance footage and contemporary interviews, re-evaluates the man and his place in the development of popular music. Born as Ingram Cecil Connor III into a rich and privileged Southern family, Gram Parsons also inherited a dangerous legacy of alcoholism and depression. By the time he was 18, his father had shot himself and his mother drank herself to death. Gram left Harvard and an uneasy relationship with his step-father Robert Parsons to head West and pursue his ambitions as a budding rocker. He soon found himself a member of The Byrds at the height of the band’s fame. His formation of the Flying Burrito Brothers and subsequent solo career produced a handful of albums that changed the course of roots music. An all-star line-up, including Keith Richards, R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam, and Linda Ronstadt, discusses the man, his music, and his drug and alcohol related death in 1973. The theft of Parsons’ corpse by his road manager and his botched cremation in Joshua Tree only added to his bizarre legend.

Gandulf Hennig is a musician and film producer-director. After a few years work for a television fiction series, he decided to produce, write and direct his first documentary film. Fallen Angel took six years in the making, with small breaks while Henning recorded two albums as a solo artist.

Filmography

Fallen Angel (2004)

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2005 AT 9.45 PM. / CHOPIN THEATRE
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