Loading...
Blog Details
0 Likes
0
Movie
Fame is desire, love is a curse. - The Devil's Violinist
Movie Details

Title: The Devil's Violinist

Release Date: 30 Jan 2013

Runtime: 2h 2m

Genre: Drama

Director: ORF, Dor Film, Construction Film, Bahr Productions Inc., Film House Germany, ARTE, ARD

Production Companies: ORF, Dor Film, Construction Film, Bahr Productions Inc., Film House Germany, ARTE, ARD

Overview: The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

Additional Information

IMDB: View on IMDB

TMDB: View on TMDB

Ratings

Average Vote: 6.6 (165 votes)

Cast

  • Nicolò Paganini: David Garrett
  • Ethel Langham: Joely Richardson
  • Urbani: Jared Harris
  • Charlotte Watson: Andrea Deck
  • John Watson: Christian McKay
  • Elizabeth Wells: Veronica Ferres
  • Lord Burghersh: Helmut Berger
  • Boy: Oskar Ricketts
  • Anna: Ania Sowinski
  • Madeline: Franziska Weisz
  • Recommended Posts
    Ju-On: White Ghost

    An apparitions of a young schoolgirl in a yellow rain hat, a family massacre, and a law student's suicide after he fails his bar exam are linked by the ominous recordings discovered on an audio cassette.

    The Deep End

    With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?

    Ave Maria

    The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.

    Love Me Strangely

    Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?

    A Bear Named Winnie

    Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration for A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories.

    The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

    When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.

    I Am Michael

    The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.

    La fuitina sbagliata

    Blackthorn

    In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.

    Vive la France

    Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of publicity terrorism. To that end, he recruits our two naive shepherds, their mission: to destroy the Eiffel Tower! But the France that Muzafar and Feruz discover is far from what they had expected...

    In & Out

    A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

    Beginners

    Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.

    Paul, Apostle of Christ

    Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.

    The Love Witch

    A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

    Johnny Stecchino

    Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

    The Phantom of the Opera

    A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.

    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

    14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

    Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

    Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.

    The Art of Racing in the Rain

    A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

    0 Comment