Anulka Dziubinska in Lisztomania (1975)

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Ladies love piano players, intuiting perhaps that the hands of the music men have developed an uncanny touch for the female skin through all that practice tickling the ivories, and composer/keyboard virtuoso Franz Liszt was perhaps the most sought-out master of the eighty-eight notes ever to run a scale. So many teenage fans dogged the steps of Franz and his fleet digits that the local press took to terming the massively hysterical mobs of girl frenzy a product of Lisztomania (1975), a term that would be resurrected hundreds of years later when a Fab Four from Liverpool invaded America and caused continent-wide emotional disruptions. This filmed re-enactment of Franz's fleshy follies is directed by British bawdy master Ken Russell and delivers all the overt perversity such a pairing promises.