143 mins

In 1681, master violin-maker Nocolo Bussotti of Cremona made his last and most prized instrument: a violin that vanished with the blood of his young wife, Anna, who died in childbirth.  From that moment, Anna Bussotti’s soul guides the destiny of the Red Violin in an epic journey through the centuries.
By the18th century in Vienna, the violin is in the hands of a young prodigy, Kaspar Weiss, and his uncompromising master.  A century later, the violin intrudes on a torrid romance between a decadent virtuoso, Fredrick Pope, and his mistress.  Decades later, in a Shanghai caught up in China’s cultural revolution, the violin finds refuge with Xiang Pei, a party official torn between her passion for western music and an unwavering duty to Mao.
...The journey ends in present day Montreal, where the Red Violin is being sold at a highly publicised auction.  Here, Charles Moritz, a renowned expert from New York, comes across the instrument and discovers its long lost secret.
 

Credits:-
Directed by Francois Girard

Producer:
Niv Fichman

Cast:
Carlo Cecchi, Jean Luc Bideau, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemying, Sylvia Chang, Colm Feore, Samuel Jackson

Francois Girard studied communications in Quebec City and Montreal.  His films and art videos have received some forty international awards.  Among the most well known of his works are the feature titled Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould (1993), a concert film Peter Gabriel’s Secret World (1994) and an adaptation of a play titled Le Dortoir (1991).