Le violon rouge (1998)

French Movie.

THE RED VIOLIN follows the unusual journey of an original and unique violin as it survives three centuries, ultimately turning up at a present-day auction in Montreal. The violin transforms all those who play it into a Svengali, from traveling Gypsies to a famous concert violinist in England. The mysterious object also narrowly avoids confiscation in Communist China, and seems to always survive the different lives of those it touches. In the present day it becomes the subject of fascination for a violin historian, played by Samuel L. Jackson, who discovers that he has stumbled upon the much sought after Red Violi...
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n, leading him to consider a deception of his own kind as the film nears its climax.
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Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy gives a performance in the court of Vienna in 1792. Taken by gypsies, the instrument is acquired by a Dionysian composer. After a journey by boat to China in 1966, it is hidden during the Cultural Revolution. In contemporary Canada, it is spotted at an auction house by a violin expert (Samuel L. Jackson) who becomes obsessed...
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with it. Scripted by Girard and Don McKellar. Filmed on a $10 million budget in Montreal, China, Italy, Austria, and Oxford.
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1681. Vioolbouwer Nicolo Bussotti legt de laatste hand aan zijn meesterwerk: een viool voor zijn ongeboren zoon. Wanneer Bussotti's vrouw samen met het kind in het kraambed sterft, is de vioolbouwer ontroostbaar. Hij lakt het instrument met het bloed van zijn vrouw zodat ze er voor eeuwig in zal voortleven. De volgende honderd jaar bevindt de viool zich in een klooster in de Zwitserse Alpen. Daar wordt het instrument aan het jonge weeskind Kaspar Weiss gegeven. De strenge vioolleraar Georges Pussin neemt het wonderkind onder zijn hoede en is van plan hem aan het Weense hof te laten spelen. Maar vlak voor zijn deb...
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uut sterft Kaspar en hij wordt begraven met de rode viool in zijn armen. Een eeuw later, Kaspars graf werd geschonden, komt de viool in handen van de decadente meesterviolist Frederick Pope die betoverd raakt door het instrument.
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Francois Girard's The Red Violin follows the imaginary history of a unique instrument as it passes over continents and through lives over the span of three centuries. The film was shot in five languages, in five countries, over a period of six months. Beginning in Canada in February 1997, the production moved on to Austria, Italy, England and China before returning to Montreal for post-production.

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