The director of The Red Violin is back with this tale of a man searching for a childhood friend who disappeared on the eve of a major performance. A sweeping drama about the impact of history and the power of music.
Shot in London, Budapest and Montreal, this drama based on the eponymous novel by Norman Lebrecht unfolds like a detective story. Two boys, Martin and Dovidl, brought together on the eve of the Second World War, grow up in London. Then, right before his first public performance, violin prodigy Dovidl mysteriously vanishes. Decades later, Martin sets off to unravel the mystery of what happened. After The Red Violin and Boychoir, François Girard once again puts his first love —...
Feature film , Fiction
CANADA, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary | 113 minutes | 2019
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