Narrative Feature | Canada | 2019 | English | 108 minutes
On the night of what is to be the first public performance of a young Polish musical prodigy, his best friend finds that the musician is missing and announces to the audience that the performance must be cancelled. Decades later, Martin (Tim Roth) begins a journey to discover what happened to his childhood friend, a once-celebrated virtuoso whose experience with the Holocaust would shape the rest of their lives. For his latest grand-scale historical drama, director François Girard returns to the sweeping themes of his breakout work, 1997’s THE RED VIOLIN, in this powerful depiction of the longstanding effect of World War II and mass execution on a generation of Europeans, aided by remarkable performances from Roth, Clive Owen, Saul Rubinek, and the two newcomer leads at its center.
