The Red Violin
Le violon rouge
1998, Film, 130 min, Drama, Music, Mystery, French, Canada, MoviePedia score 70
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
Directed by François Girard
Cast
- Carlo Cecchi as Nicolo Bussotti (Cremona)
- Jean-Luc Bideau as Georges Poussin (Vienna)
- Christoph Koncz as Kaspar Weiss (Vienna)
- Jason Flemyng as Frederick Pope (Oxford)
- Irene Grazioli as Anna Bussotti (Cremona)
- Anita Laurenzi as Cesca (Cremona)
- Tommaso Puntelli as Apprentice (Cremona)
- Aldo Brugnini as Assistant (Cremona)
- Samuele Amighetti as Boy (Cremona)
- Clotilde Mollet as Antoinette Pussin (Vienna)
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