The Red Violin (1998)
Rating: 7.4/10
Duration: 130 min
Year: 1998
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Music
Director(s): François Girard
Description:
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.
Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson as Charles Morritz (Montréal)
- Greta Scacchi as Victoria Byrd (Oxford)
- Clotilde Mollet as Antoinette Pussin (Vienna)
- Carlo Cecchi as Nicolo Bussotti (Cremona)
- Irene Grazioli as Anna Bussotti (Cremona)
- Anita Laurenzi as Cesca (Cremona)
- Tommaso Puntelli as Apprentice (Cremona)
- Samuele Amighetti as Boy (Cremona)
- Jean-Luc Bideau as Georges Poussin (Vienna)
- Aldo Brugnini as Assistant (Cremona)
- Christoph Koncz as Kaspar Weiss (Vienna)
- Florentín Groll as Anton von Spielmann (Vienna)
- Johannes Silberschneider as Father Richter (Vienna)
- Rainer Egger as Brother Christophe (Vienna)
- Paul Koeker as Brother Gustav (Vienna)
