Samuel L. Jackson
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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 as it tells the story of a mysterious red-coloured violin and its many owners.
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.
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.
The Red Violin. Samuel L. Jackson gives a masterful performance as a musical-instrument appraiser caught up in a soul-wrenching moral conflict in this moving tale of mystery and obsession. 2,449 IMDb 7.6 2 h 10 min 1999. X-Ray R.
The intricate history of a beautiful antique violin is traced from its creation in Cremona, Italy, in 1681, where a legendary violin maker (Carlo Cecchi) paints it with his dead wife's blood to...
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The Red Violin. Samuel L. Jackson gives a masterful performance as a musical-instrument appraiser caught up in a soul-wrenching moral conflict in this moving tale of mystery...
The Red Violin (French: Le Violon Rouge) is a 1998 Canadian Italian American British Austrian drama movie directed by François Girard and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi, Sylvia Chang, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Colm Feore. It won an Academy Award in 2000.
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.
The film is based on a screenplay co-written by Canadian film-makers Don McKellar and François Girard (who also directed the movie). They based their story on a certain Stradivarius violin, the Red Mendelssohn (1721), currently owned by concert violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn.
Jun 11, 1999 · Francois Girard's epic follows the history of a violin as it passes over continents and through lives over the span of three centuries.
