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Director:
Writers:
Sidney Buchman (writer)
Ernst Marischka (story)
Release Date:
18 January 1945 (USA) more
Plot:
Biography of Frederic Chopin. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 1 win more
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Oscar Nominee Foch Dies After Falling Ill At University
(From WENN. 7 December 2008, 5:39 PM, PST)
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Entertaining by inaccurate more (33 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Paul Muni | ... | Prof. Joseph Elsner | |
| Merle Oberon | ... | George Sand | |
| Cornel Wilde | ... | Frédéric Chopin | |
| Nina Foch | ... | Constantia | |
| George Coulouris | ... | Louis Pleyel | |
| Howard Freeman | ... | Kalkbrenner | |
| Stephen Bekassy | ... | Franz Liszt |
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Chopin (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
113 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Darren McGavin's film debut. more
Quotes:
George Sand: [to Chopin] Discontinue that so-called Polonaise jumble you've been playing for days. more
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Referenced in "Murphy Brown: A Year to Remember (#5.7)" (1992) more
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I love the music of Chopin. That is why I was eager to see this 1945 classic about his life. After seeing it, I enjoyed the film so much that it spurred me to seek out some biographical information on his life. After having done so, I realized that the story in the film bore very little resemblance to the truth and I was greatly disappointed. It was just another example of extremely entertaining Hollywood drivel.
As a work of fiction, the film was nicely done. The story was enchanting and it painted Chopin as a very noble patriot, playing himself to death in concerts to earn money to support the Polish revolution, though I found no support for that in anything I read. Cornel Wilde was nominated for an Oscar for his performance, which was excellent indeed, but he was incongruously cast. Wilde is handsome and athletic looking and Chopin was plain and frail. Paul Muni, though charming in the role of Professor Elsner, was much too eccentric and ebulliently peculiar to be very believable. The best performance by far was given by Merle Oberon as the cold and iron willed George Sand, whose love affair with Chopin turned into a tyrannical attempt to shelter him from the world.
The best part of this film was the music of Chopin himself, played brilliantly by Jose Iturbi. The music alone was worth enduring the Hollywood prevarication. I also enjoyed the 19th Century costumes.
I rated this film a 7/10. If it were a fictional account of some person who never existed, I probably would have rated it a 9/10, because it was very enjoyable. However, such liberties were taken with the truth that I had to deduct a couple of points in protest. If you are a classic film buff or a classical music lover, it is definitely worth seeing.