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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 keep her memory alive, to an auction house in modern-day Montreal, where it draws the eye of an expert appraiser (Samuel L. Jackson). Over the years between, the violin travels through four different countries, where it has a profound impact on all those who own it.

Image credit: Swank

Did you know?

  • Joshua Bell, who was the solo violinist on the soundtrack, was also a violinist double. When non-musician actors needed to be shown playing the violin in close-up, Bell would hide behind the actor, and his left hand would be the hand seen by the camera on the neck of the violin. See him and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at The Paramount on March 3 at 7:30PM!
  • The movie was inspired by the Stradivari violin known as “The Red Mendelssohn.”

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