Dirk Bogarde stars in Charles Vidor’s biographical romance as Franz Liszt, focusing on the Hungarian pianist and composer’s forbidden romance with the married Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (Capucine) and their attempts to be together despite the restrictions of the time.
I can see why this didn’t particularly connect with audiences at the time; Liszt’s character as written is far too arrogantly smug to ever really sympathise with, and the adulterous relationship (which he abandons his previous lover and their children for)…