Svengali

Svengali

Life, love and a band. Can he manage it?

PG-13 2013 · 90 min · ★ 5.4 · Comedy

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…

Directed by John Hardwick · Written by Jonny Owen

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