The Song of Names 2019 Movie

Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him. More details

Directors

François Girard

Cast

Eddie Izzard Gerran Howell Stanley Townsend Amy Sloan Marina Hambro István Fazekas

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drama music mystery war child prodigy musician violinist world war two flashback friend friendship violin disappearance jew jewish refugee concert bicycle rain london england year 1951 voice over dialogue 21 year old immigrant radio announcer classical music backstage father son relationship friendship between boys gagliano the violin audience orchestra concert hall prologue flash forward taxi kiss newcastle england train suitcase tyneside england music competition clarinet player cellist pianist girl bowing memory boy violinist reference to fritz kreisler music teacher watching someone being watched father son embrace england knocked to the floor name calling restaurant newspaper headline mother son relationship reference to jascha heifetz virtuoso musician rosin knocking on a door street musician hotel pub telephone telephone call husband wife relationship listening to a radio radio news writing a letter prejudice anti semitism reference to adolf hitler photograph family photograph lie crying boy stealing a bottle of milk spitting milk on someone bottle of milk slow motion scene laughter music professor reference to albert einstein arrogance loyalty whispering year 1952 boy musician pizzicato air raid shelter explosion brother sister relationship violin duel applause war ruins british soldier dead body bracelet robbing the dead under a bridge boy smokes a cigarette cigarette smoking hebrew warsaw poland naughty playing cards bar mitzvah coming of age torah 13 year old luthier stradivarius violin reference to nicolo gagliano reference to alessandro gagliano airport english apology younger version of character food eating year 1943 teenage boy religion 5 year old 9 year old prayer kiddush rabbi kaddish wheelchair search for missing family mental hospital overhead camera shot pretend slow motion year 1953 ethnicity yarmulke prayer shawl synagogue church religious conversion family relationships renouncing one's religion talmud zion love obsession 15 year old 11 year old murder of family guilt gravestone kiss on the cheek quest genius dancing apostate reference to dante alighieri newspaper clipping recording rehearsal reference to isaac stern surrogate father surrogate son relationship address book violin shop reference to adrian bailey crown heights brooklyn new york city yiddish punched in the face f word surrogate brother surrogate brother relationship losing everything bus falling asleep hampstead village london crying man oral tradition yom hashoah death of sister reunion reference to max bruch orchestra conductor standing ovation voice over letter anguish sex secret love triangle no opening credits busker blitzkrieg pole in the uk 1950s no call no show 1980s foster family english family alternating time lines debt owed missing family searching for missing friend new york city new york orthodox jew polish jew petty thief treblinka poland death of father death of mother title spoken by character

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