Легенда о пианисте (1998) - IMDb
Легенда о пианисте: Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
With Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn.
A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
Легенда о пианисте.
A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
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Photos 215.
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Did you know.
Tim Roth cannot, in fact, play the piano.
He trained for six months just to be able to fake it" for the film.
The recording equipment used for making the record was clearly acoustic in nature, showing large horns.
This type of recording was largely replaced in 1925 by electrical recording, using microphones.
Yet the recording was made somewhere between 1927 and 1933, according to Tooney's story.
Furthermore, the recording engineer played back the matrix immediately, this would have ruined the matrix, which was cut in wax.
In those days, immediate playback was only possible using a 2nd set of equipment expressly for that purpose.
1900: [explaining why he didn't leave the ship and never will be] All that city.
You just couldn't see an end to it.
The end!
Please, could you show me where it ends?
It was all very fine on that gangway and I was grand, too, in my overcoat.
I cut quite a figure and I had no doubts about getting off.
Guaranteed.
That wasn't a problem.
It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max.
It was what I didn't see.
Can you understand that?
What I didn't see.
In all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end.
There was everything.
But there wasn't an end.
What I couldn't see was where all that came to an end.
The end of the world.
Take a piano.
The keys begin, the keys end.
You know there are 88 of them and no-one can tell you differently.
They are not infinite, you are infinite.
And on those 88 keys the music that you can make is infinite.
I like that.
That I can live by.
But you get me up on that gangway and roll out a keyboard with millions of keys, and that's the truth, there's no end to them, that keyboard is infinite.
But if that keyboard is infinite there's no music you can play.
You're sitting on the wrong bench.
That's God's piano.
Christ, did you see the streets?
There were thousands of them!
How do you choose just one?
One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die.
All that world weighing down on you without you knowing where it ends.
Aren't you scared of just breaking apart just thinking about it, the enormity of living in it?
I was born on this ship.
The world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time.
And there were wishes here, but never more than could fit on a ship, between prow and stern.
You played out your happiness on a piano that was not infinite.
I learned to live that way.
Land is a ship too big for me.
It's a woman too beautiful.
It's a voyage too long.
Perfume too strong.
It's music I don't know how to make.
I can't get off this ship.
At best, I can step off my life.
After all, it's as though I never existed.
You're the exception, Max.
You're the only one who knows that I'm here.
You're a minority.
You'd better get used to it.
Forgive me, my friend.
But I'm not getting off.
Original version released in Italy is 2 hours and 45 minutes long.
A 123-minutes version premiered at the Locarno film Festival in July 1999.
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