Synopsis
Amateur and heavy-handed, this biography of the Hungarian composer of operettas Imre Kalman is informative but at the same time flat and unrealistic in its portrayal of human interactions. Kalman is already a musical prodigy at the age of four but grows up to be trained as a lawyer -- apparently as a much more sensible career. Jurisprudence lost an attorney when Kalman turned exclusively to music, becoming successful and marrying his first wife, a talented actress. When she dies 20 years later, the...more