Svengali (2013)
Life, love and a band. Can he manage it?
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…
- Date of release
- 2013-06-19
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (33)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- John Hardwick
Casting
- Martin Freeman — Don
- Vicky McClure — Shell
- Kumud Pant — Pub guest
- Michael Socha — Tommy
- Maxine Peake — Angie
- Michael Smiley — Irish Pierre
- Morwenna Banks — Francine Hardy
- Matt Berry — Jeremy Braines
- Jonny Owen — Dixie
- Brian Hibbard — Dixie's Dad
- Roger Evans — Horsey
- Alan McGee — Himself
Interesting facts
Svengali is a 2013 British film directed by John Hardwick, written by Jonny Owen, and starring Martin Freeman, Vicky McClure, Matt Berry, Michael Socha, Michael Smiley, Vauxhall Jermaine and Natasha O'Keeffe. The film was produced by Root Films.
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