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Release Date: 1998

Cast: Luigi De Luca, Clarence Williams III, Mélanie Thierry, Niall O'Brien, Peter Vaughan, Leonid Zaslavski, Nigel Fan, Bernard Padden, Bill Nunn, Femi Elufowojo, Gabriele Lavia, Pruitt Taylor Vince ...MORE

Cast: Luigi De Luca, Clarence Williams III, Mélanie Thierry, Niall O'Brien, Peter Vaughan, Leonid Zaslavski, Nigel Fan, Bernard Padden, Bill Nunn, Femi Elufowojo, Gabriele Lavia, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Tim Roth, Alberto Vazquez ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Period Piece, Drama Film, World Cinema, Indie

The Legend of 1900 (Italian: La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano) is a 1998 film directed by the Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Tim Roth. This is Tornatore's first English-language film. The film is inspired by a theater monologue, Novecento, by Alessandro Baricco. The film was nominated for a variety of awards worldwide, winning several for its soundtrack. The story is told in medias res as a series of flashbacks. Max Tooney, a musician, enters a secondhand music shop just before closing time, broke and badly in need of money. He has only a Conn trumpet, which he sells... MORE

The Legend of 1900 (Italian: La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano) is a 1998 film directed by the Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Tim Roth. This is Tornatore's first English-language film. The film is inspired by a theater monologue, Novecento, by Alessandro Baricco. The film was nominated for a variety of awards worldwide, winning several for its soundtrack. The story is told in medias res as a series of flashbacks. Max Tooney, a musician, enters a secondhand music shop just before closing time, broke and badly in need of money. He has only a Conn trumpet, which he sells for less than he had hoped. Clearly torn at parting from his prized possession, he asks to play it one last time. The shopkeeper agrees, and as the musician plays, the shopkeeper immediately recognizes the song from a broken record matrix he found inside a recently acquired secondhand piano. He asks who the piece is by, and Max tells him the story of 1900. 1900 was found abandoned on the four stacker SS Virginian, a baby in a box, and likely the son of poor immigrants from steerage. Danny, a coal-man from the boiler room, is determined to raise the boy as his own. He names the boy Danny Boodman T. LESS