"Music brought them together. Time would tear them apart."

2019

1h 54m

6.7(167 votes)

Drama

Music

Overview

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

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45 members

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Tim Roth

Martin Simmonds

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Clive Owen

Dovidl Rapoport

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Catherine McCormack

Helen Simmonds

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Eddie Izzard

Radio Presenter

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Saul Rubinek

Feinman

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Jonah Hauer-King

Dovidl 17-23

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Gerran Howell

Martin 17-21

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Luke Doyle

Dovidl 9-13

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Misha Handley

Martin 9-13

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Stanley Townsend

Gilbert

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Julian Wadham

Arbuthnot Bailey

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Richard Bremmer

Billy

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Max Macmillan

Peter Stemp

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Matt Devere

Milkman

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Amy Sloan

Enid Simmonds

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Tamás Puskás

Professor Carl Flesch

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Jakub Kotyński

Zygmunt Rapoport

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Richard Bremmer

Billy the Busker

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Schwartz Zoltán

Jozef Weschler

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Julian Wadham

Mr. Bailey

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István Darvas

Bar Mitzvah Rabbi

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Alex Bisping

Warsaw Taxi Driver

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Lidia Bogaczówna

Asylum Nurse

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Magdalena Cielecka

Anna Wozniak

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Zsófi Tóth

Young Anna Wozniak

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Saul Rubinek

Mr. Feinman

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Joanna Caplan

Broche Rapoport

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Jesse Noah Gruman

Zygmunt Rapoport (7)

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Howard Jerome

Katzenberg

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Chaim Paskesz

Frumkin

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Pinchasz Weisberger

Chaim Frumkin

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Daniel Mutlu

Young Rebbe

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Declan Hannigan

Desk Clerk

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Wayne Brett

Security Man

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Jack Martin Haendler

1986 Conductor

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Production

Ralph Berkin

Orchestra Manager Sanderson

Writing

Jeffrey Caine

Tom Noble

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Tamás Masa

Sabbathsong Klezmer Band

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Bálint Szabó

Sabbathsong Klezmer Band

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Izsák Farkas

Sabbathsong Klezmer Band

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Sándor Csányi

Sabbathsong Klezmer Band

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Endre Kertész

Sabbathsong Klezmer Band

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György Szentkirályi

Sabbathsong Klezmer Band

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Zoltán Langer

Sabbathsong Klezmer Band

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Szabolcs Andrasics

Sabbathsong Klezmer Band

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