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Gustav Mahler: Last year I was selected from many applicants to conduct a season of German music at the Royal Opera House in London. Where I performed with some success the works of Richard Wagner.
Hugo Wolfe: Wagner? That there's the rub.
Gustav Mahler: I beg your pardon, Your Majesty?
Hugo Wolfe: Drop your trousers! I'm sure your wife won't object. I assume she's seen it before.
[Gustav drops his trousers, the Hugo inspects]
Hugo Wolfe: It's as I thought. A Jew! There's the rub. We have some brilliant surgeons here, they could probably graft on a new foreskin, but - but I doubt you could deceive Cosima Wagner. She can smell a Jew a mile off and she's an even greater anti-Semite than her late belated husband. Unless we can win her over, my hands are tied. I rule the country, but she rules the world - of music
Hugo Wolfe: Wagner? That there's the rub.
Gustav Mahler: I beg your pardon, Your Majesty?
Hugo Wolfe: Drop your trousers! I'm sure your wife won't object. I assume she's seen it before.
[Gustav drops his trousers, the Hugo inspects]
Hugo Wolfe: It's as I thought. A Jew! There's the rub. We have some brilliant surgeons here, they could probably graft on a new foreskin, but - but I doubt you could deceive Cosima Wagner. She can smell a Jew a mile off and she's an even greater anti-Semite than her late belated husband. Unless we can win her over, my hands are tied. I rule the country, but she rules the world - of music
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Last year I was selected from many applicants
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to conduct a season of German music at the Royal Opera House in London
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Where I performed with some success the works of Richard Wagner
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Wagner
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There's the rub
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Drop your trousers
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I beg your pardon Majesty
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Drop your trousers
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I'm sure your wife won't object I assume she's seen it before
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As I thought a Jew
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That is the rub
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We have some brilliant surgeons here
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They could probably graft on a new foreskin but
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but even so I doubt that would deceive Cosima Wagner
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She can smell a Jew a mile off
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And she's an even greater anti semite
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than her late lamented husband
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Unless we can win her over my hands are well they're tied
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I may rule the country but she rules the World Of Music
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Movie Summary
Composer Gustav Mahler's life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.
