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The Freddie Mercury Story: Who Wants to Live Forever?

8.020161h 35mMovieDocumentaryTV MovieMusic

The last years of Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), rock legend and frontman of Queen, a band that conquered the world of music in the seventies and eighties: what was his lifestyle and the path that led him to a tragic death due to AIDS when he was only 46 years old.

DirectorJohn Fothergill
WriterJohn Fothergill
ProducersMichael Kelpie·Ed Taylor

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Cast · Directed by John Fothergill

JB
John Blunt
Freddie Mercury
MB
Mark Brennan
Jim Hutton
PC
Paul Culshaw
Peter Freestone
LE
Laura Edghill
Mary Austin
PWPatrick Warner
Patrick Warner
Brian May
MT
Martin Teall
Roger Taylor
JB
Jack Beale
John Deacon
RARietta Austin
Rietta Austin
Barbara Valentin
OO
Owen Oldroyd
Winnie Kirchberger
PB
Patrick Brenann
Jim Beach
CR
Colin Reed
John Murphy
RA
Richard Allinson
Narrator (voice)

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