---
title: 'Savage Messiah (1972)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ken Russell'
released: '1972-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 99
genres:
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Australia'
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/savage-messiah-1972'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069225/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Savage Messiah (1972)

1972 · 99 min · History · Australia, United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Savage Messiah is a 1972 British biographical drama film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, made by Russ-Arts and distributed by MGM. It was directed and produced by Ken Russell, with Harry Benn as associate producer, from a screenplay by Christopher Logue, based on the 1931 book Savage Messiah by H. S. Ede. Much of the content of Ede's book came from letters sent between Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and his lover Sophie Brzeska.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ken Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-russell)
- **Producer:** [Ken Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-russell)
- **Screenplay:** [Jim Ede](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-ede)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Michael Garrett](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-garrett)
- **Director of Photography:** [Dick Bush](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-bush)

## Cast

- [Helen Mirren](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-mirren) as Gosh Boyle
- [Michael Gough](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-gough) as M. Gaudier
- [Peter Vaughan](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-vaughan) as Museum Attendant
- [Howard Goorney](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-goorney) as Gendarme
- [Dorothy Tutin](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-tutin) as Sophie Brzeska
- [Scott Antony](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-antony) as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

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