Watch The Red Violin (1998) Free Online

Release Date: 1998

Cast: Johannes Silberschneider, Monique Mercure, Sylvia Chang, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Oh, Lui Zifeng, Anita Laurenzi, Don McKellar, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jason Flemyng, Julian Richings, Carlo Cecchi ...MORE

Cast: Johannes Silberschneider, Monique Mercure, Sylvia Chang, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Oh, Lui Zifeng, Anita Laurenzi, Don McKellar, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jason Flemyng, Julian Richings, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Greta Scacchi, Christoph Koncz ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Costume Drama, Thriller, Indie, Period Piece, Romantic Drama, Mystery, Drama Film, Musical Drama

The Red Violin (French: Le Violon rouge, German: Die Rote Violine, Italian: Il Violino Rosso, Chinese: 紅提琴) is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners. The film was an international co-production between companies in Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom. The film tells the story of a perfect violin known as "the Red Violin" for its rich red colour. At the film's beginning, the violin is being auctioned in Canada. As the bidding starts, the violin's history is... MORE

The Red Violin (French: Le Violon rouge, German: Die Rote Violine, Italian: Il Violino Rosso, Chinese: 紅提琴) is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners. The film was an international co-production between companies in Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom. The film tells the story of a perfect violin known as "the Red Violin" for its rich red colour. At the film's beginning, the violin is being auctioned in Canada. As the bidding starts, the violin's history is revealed, showing that the violin has been in existence for over 300 years, having been made in 1681. Its history is told in five stories set in different locations around the world—Cremona, Vienna, Oxford, Shanghai, and Montreal. These stories are told in chronological order except for the Cremona and Montreal stories, which are intersected into the others with each change of location and as the tarot reading and the auction develop. The 1997 auction is used as a framing device for the first four stories in the film. After the fourth story, we see the complicated resolution to the auction sequence with LESS