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The Red Violin (French: Le Violon Rouge) is a 1998 drama film directed by François Girard and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi and Sylvia Chang. It spans four centuries and five countries telling the story of a mysterious red-coloured violin and its many owners.
It’s there that the true story of the Red Violin becomes a little more complicated. The relatively new violin then disappeared for two hundred years. Theories abound about what happened to it, but no one knows for sure until it turned up in Germany in the 1930s.
- Amanda Varney
- 77 min
- (226) 922-0890
Jun 18, 1999 · It traces the story of a violin ("the single most perfect acoustical machine I've ever seen,'' says a restorer) from its maker in 17th century Italy to an auction room in modern Montreal. The violin passes from the rich to the poor, from Italy to Poland to England to China to Canada.
A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner. In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off.
Jun 11, 1999 · The Red Violin: Directed by François Girard. With Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Anita Laurenzi, Tommaso Puntelli. A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
- (35K)
- Drama, Music, Mystery
- François Girard
- 1999-06-11
Oct 10, 2006 · The Red Violin (1998), a Canada/Italy/US/UK co-production, is the tale of a violin, told with overlapping storylines involving the people who own it over a period of 300 years. From its creator, a grieving 17th-century Italian master violinmaker (Carlo Cecchi) whose wife dies in childbirth, the violin passes to a child prodigy (Christoph Koncz ...
The story follows the history of a violin, the "red violin" as it is known in musical circles, from its creation in Italy in the 1600s to the present day where it is on the auction block...
