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The Song of Names

Summary: 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.

Release Date: February 06, 2020

Genres: Drama, Music, Mystery

Director: François Girard

Writers: Jeffrey Caine

, Norman Lebrecht

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Serendipity Point Films, Lyla Films, Feel Films, Film House Germany, Echelon Productions, Inc., Ingenious Media, Proton Cinema, Riba Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Canada, Hungary

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,077,584

International: $ 63,603

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

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