Genre: | Period drama |
Director: | Anna Ambrose |
Producer: | Ann Skinner Michael Whyte |
Starring: | Simon Callow |
Composer: | Nicholas Kraemer |
Cinematography: | Peter MacDonald |
Editor: | George Akers |
Company: | Spectre Films |
Channel: | Channel 4 |
Runtime: | 102 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Honour, Profit and Pleasure is a 1985 British television film directed by Anna Ambrose and starring Simon Callow as George Frideric Handel, with an ensemble cast portraying a variety of other roles. It was broadcast to celebrate three hundredth anniversary of the year of the composer's birth in 1685. The film focuses on Handel's career in early Georgian London.[1]