
The Song of Names (2019)
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- PG-13
- 1h 53min
- Drama, Music
- 25 Dec 2019 (USA)
- Movie
- 8 wins & 11 nominations.
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Cast verified as complete
Eddie Izzard | ... |
BBC Radio Announcer
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Gerran Howell | ... |
Martin (17-23)
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Stanley Townsend | ... |
Gilbert Simmonds
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Amy Sloan | ... |
Enid Simmonds
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Marina Hambro | ... |
Young Helen
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István Fazekas | ... |
1951 Conductor
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Tim Roth | ... |
Martin Simmonds
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Catherine McCormack | ... |
Helen Simmonds
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Steven Hillman | ... |
Mayor Froggatt
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Sharon Percy | ... |
Jenny Burrows
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Eszter Lugosi | ... |
Clarinet Girl
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Áron Rátkay | ... |
Cello Boy
(as Rátkay Áron)
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Eszter Túrós | ... |
Piano Accompanist
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Annamária Makai | ... |
Piano Girl
(as Makai Annamária)
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Viktoria Kay | ... |
Ellen Stemp
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Max Macmillan | ... |
Peter Stemp
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Misha Handley | ... |
Martin (9-13)
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Luke Doyle | ... |
Dovidl (9-13)
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Tamás Puskás | ... |
Professor Carl Flesch
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Jakub Kotynski | ... |
Zygmunt Rapoport
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Richard Bremmer | ... |
Billy the Busker
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Matt Devere | ... |
Milkman
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Zoltán Schwartz | ... |
Jozef Weschler
(as Schwartz Zoltán)
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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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Jonah Hauer-King | ... |
Dovidl (17-23)
(as Jonah Hauer King)
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Lidia Bogaczówna | ... |
Asylum Nurse
(as Lidia Bogaczowna)
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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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Clive Owen | ... |
Dovidl Rapoport
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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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Ralph Berkin | ... |
Orchestra Manager Sanderson
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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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Budapest Simfonietta | ... |
Symphony Orchestra
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Rosina Aichner | ... |
Jewish Woman (uncredited)
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Flóra Bicskei | ... |
Waitress (uncredited)
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Kamil Lemie | ... |
Hebrew Rabi / Polish Doctor (uncredited) (voice)
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Balázs Veres | ... |
Railway Station Guard (uncredited)
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Tamás Ábel Winkler | ... |
Wheelchair patient (uncredited)
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Directed by
François Girard |
Written by
Jeffrey Caine | ... | (screenplay by) |
Norman Lebrecht | ... | (based on the novel by) |
Produced by
Christian Angermayer | ... | executive producer |
Marta Habior | ... | line producer: Poland |
Klemens Hallmann | ... | executive producer (as Klemens Hallman) |
Nick Hirschkorn | ... | producer |
Alan Howard | ... | executive producer |
Joe Iacono | ... | executive producer |
Tibor Krsko | ... | executive producer (as Tibor Krskó) |
Lyse Lafontaine | ... | producer |
Robert Lantos | ... | producer (produced by) |
Randy Lennox | ... | executive producer |
Nadine Luque | ... | executive producer |
Jens Meurer | ... | executive producer |
Mark Musselman | ... | executive producer |
Viktória Petrányi | ... | co-producer |
Anant Singh | ... | executive producer |
Stephen Spence | ... | executive producer |
Peter Touche | ... | executive producer |
Peter Watson | ... | executive producer |
Music by
Howard Shore |
Cinematography by
David Franco | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
Michel Arcand |
Editorial Department
Julien Alix | ... | colorist |
Mathieu Bérubé | ... | first assistant editor (as Mathieu Berube) |
Dóra Vaszily | ... | dailies quality check operator (uncredited) |
Casting By
Deirdre Bowen | ||
Pam Dixon | ||
Susie Figgis | ||
Kirsty Kinnear | ||
Beatrix Nemesházi | ... | (hungary casting) |
Production Design by
François Séguin |
Art Direction by
Vincent Aird | ... | assistant art director |
Katie Gormley | ||
Magdolna Varga |
Set Decoration by
Lili Bartha | ||
Mercédesz Nagyváradi | ... | assistant set decorator |
Costume Design by
Anne Dixon |
Makeup Department
Ildikó Aradi | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Marie-Josée Beaudet | ... | hairdresser: Canada, daily |
Mónika Berek | ... | makeup artist: daily, Hungary |
Magdolna Berkes | ... | makeup artist: daily, Hungary (as Madolna Berkes) |
Marianne Bobet | ... | assistant makeup artist: Canada |
Noémi Czakó | ... | makeup artist: daily, Hungary |
Magdolna Czégér | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Michelle Côté | ... | hair department head: hair designer |
Christophe Giraud | ... | assistant makeup artist: Canada |
Péter Gyöngyösi | ... | key hair stylist: Hungary |
Réka Görgényi | ... | makeup supervisor: Hungary |
Hildegard Haide | ... | makeup artist: daily, Hungary |
László Horváth | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Andrea Hudák | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Jánosné Kajtár | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary (as Bogyó Kajtárné) |
Csöpi Kanizsainé | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Gabriella Lõrincz | ... | daily hairdresser (as Lörincz Gabriella) / hairdresser: daily, Hungary (as Gabriella Lörinz) |
Ildikó Makk | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Suzy Mazzarese-Allison | ... | hairdresser: Mr. Owens (as Suzy Mazzarese) |
Nuala McArdle | ... | makeup artist: UK |
Zsófia Muri | ... | assistant key hair stylist: Hungary (as Zsófia Múri) |
Orsolya Murányi | ... | makeup artist: daily, Hungary |
Magdolna Márta | ... | makeup supervisor: crowd, Hungary |
Gabriella Németh | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
F. Kovács Petra | ... | makeup artist (as Petra Kovács) |
Kathya Portillo | ... | makeup artist: Canada (as Katya Portillo) |
Jutta Russell | ... | makeup artist: UK |
Erzsébet Rácz | ... | hair supervisor: crowd, Hungary (as Ezsébet Rácz) |
Ghislaine Sant | ... | hairdresser: Canada, daily |
Jean Scarabin | ... | hairdresser: Canada |
Karen Scott | ... | makeup artist: UK |
Irma Szabó | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Diána Szilágyi | ... | assistant makeup artist: crowd, Hungary |
Dorina Szöke | ... | makeup artist: daily, Hungary |
Annamária Takács | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Fanny Vachon | ... | key makeup artist / makeup department head |
Felicity Wright | ... | makeup artist: UK |
Éva Zvekán | ... | hairdresser: daily, Hungary |
Production Management
Gábor Czibere | ... | unit manager |
Ronald Gilbert | ... | production supervisor |
Georges Jardon | ... | post-production supervisor (as George Jardon) |
Marianna Tusják | ... | assistant production manager |
Gábor Téni | ... | production manager |
Melissa K. Webb | ... | production manager: Splinter Unit Poland & NYC |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sarah Campbell | ... | second assistant director |
Ariane Collman | ... | third assistant director |
Tihanyi Csilla | ... | Cast PA / assistant director (as Csilla Tihanyi) |
Jamie Hamer | ... | second unit: first Assistant Director UK |
Márk Katona | ... | second assistant director |
Krisztián Kozák | ... | assistant director (as Kozák Krisztián) |
La' Toyah McDonald | ... | third assistant director: second unit, UK |
Andrew Shea | ... | first assistant director |
Szonja Szekerák | ... | third assistant director: UK |
András Szûcs | ... | first assistant director |
Mika Herzán | ... | set production assistant (uncredited) |
Art Department
János Andervald | ... | set dresser |
Viktor Belágyi | ... | buyer |
Alain Brochu | ... | construction supervisor |
Budai Csaba | ... | draughtsperson |
Karoly Gancs | ... | storeman |
Arnold Gerhát | ... | leadman |
Hedvig Király | ... | assistant art director (as Hedvig Kiraly) |
József Kiss | ... | supervising construction manager |
Balázs M. Kovács | ... | property master |
Bruno La Haye | ... | props (as Bruno Lahaye) |
Raymond Larose | ... | set designer |
Olaf Lyczba | ... | graphic designer |
Viktor Marián | ... | props |
Tamás Orosz | ... | set dresser/leadman |
Steve Patterson | ... | construction coordinator: UK construction |
Olivier Proulx | ... | property master |
Veronika Toldi | ... | draughtsperson (as Toldi Veronika) |
Szilvia Szisza Toth | ... | art department coordinator |
Sofiya Urbán | ... | set dresser |
Beáta Vavrinecz | ... | assistant art director |
Zsolt Ilia | ... | graphic designer (uncredited) |
Sound Department
George Atkins | ... | adr mixer |
Claude Beaugrand | ... | sound editor |
Michel B. Bordeleau | ... | supervising sound editor |
Botond Csizmadia | ... | sound assistant |
Natalie Fleurant | ... | supervising adr editor |
Renzo Garcia | ... | sound assistant: UK |
Bernard Gariépy Strobl | ... | re-recording mixer |
Claude La Haye | ... | sound mixer |
Adam Newns | ... | adr assistant |
Francine Poirier | ... | dialogue editor |
Francis Péloquin | ... | boom operator |
Victoria Rose Sampson | ... | supervising adr editor: Los Angeles |
Joey Simas | ... | re-recording mix assistant |
Karl Sveinsson | ... | adr assistant |
Euan Toms | ... | adr assistant |
Lise Wedlock | ... | foley artist |
Special Effects by
Balázs Hoffmann | ... | special effects floor supervisor |
Gábor Kiszelly | ... | special effects supervisor (as Gabor Kiszelly) |
Samuel Mcgrath | ... | special effects assistant |
Joe White | ... | special effects technician |
Visual Effects by
Mathieu Arseneault | ... | IT manager |
Didier Bertrand | ... | digital compositor |
Mathieu Bérubé | ... | visual effects editor |
Guillaume Chainé | ... | digital compositor |
Sébastien Chartier | ... | visual effects artist |
Cyril Conforti | ... | digital compositor |
Marie-Océane Courtois | ... | digital compositor |
Camille Dao | ... | digital compositor |
Maxime Desforges | ... | vfx editor |
Marie-Annick Desrosiers | ... | digital compositor |
Valérie Dugas | ... | digital compositor |
Jean-François Ferland | ... | executive visual effets supervisor: Alchemy 24 |
Jessica Francoeur | ... | visual effects artist (as Jessica Francoeur-Ducharme) |
Ismaël Gros | ... | digital compositor |
Bryan Hsu | ... | digital compositor |
Alain Lachance | ... | visual effects supervisor: Alchemy 24 |
Marie-Claude Lafontaine | ... | visual effects producer: Alchemy 24 |
Pierre-David Myles | ... | visual effects coordinator |
Charles Richer | ... | digital compositor |
Jean-Pierre Riverin | ... | digital artist |
Marc A. Rousseau | ... | visual effects executive producer |
Nicolas Sabourin-Beausoleil | ... | digital compositor |
Andrés Talegón | ... | compositor |
Sonia Wu | ... | digital compositor |
Stunts
Ildikó Szücs | ... | stunt department coordinator |
Camera and Electrical Department
Viktor Balogh | ... | assistant video |
Attila Dóczi | ... | gaffer |
Stéphanie Girard-Hamelin | ... | video assist coordinator: Montreal photography |
Levente Györgypál | ... | electrician |
Árpád Horváth | ... | b camera operator dailies |
Nick Kenealy | ... | video assist operator: UK |
Emil Kovács | ... | Qtake operator: vfx unit |
Sabrina Lantos | ... | still photographer |
Miklós Lucsik | ... | lighting technician |
Nicolas Marion | ... | first assistant camera |
Alain Masse | ... | key grip: Montreal photography |
István Ménkü | ... | best boy |
Zsolt Big Nagy | ... | EPK: cameraman / Epk: cameraman |
Máté Oláh | ... | video assist operator |
András Pozsár | ... | dolly grip |
Viktor Racsek | ... | studio key rigger |
György Réder | ... | b cam operator |
Zoltán Schrammel | ... | technocrane operator |
Geoffroy St-Hilaire | ... | a camera and steadicam operator |
Robert Streeper | ... | Camera Car Driver: Poland Unit & New York Unit |
James Sullivan | ... | camera operator: VFX Unit-Poland Unit |
Ákos Szathmáry | ... | a camera second assistant camera |
Barna Trajtler | ... | second assistant camera |
Attila Tumbász | ... | digital imaging technician |
Dániel Vékony | ... | electrician |
Casting Department
Piotr Bartuszek | ... | additional cast |
Andrea Kenyon | ... | casting: montreal |
Tamás Kertész | ... | extras casting |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Amelia Ashley | ... | costume pa |
Hédi Bari | ... | Assistant Costume Supervisor |
Raffaella Buck | ... | breakdown artist |
Hélène Bélanger | ... | costume set supervisor |
Cheikh Asaad Cynthia | ... | costume set supervisor |
Anna Dal Farra | ... | assistant costume designer |
Katy Delisle | ... | truck costume supervisor |
Maria Endara | ... | cutter |
Monika Herédi | ... | crowd supervisor |
Mark Holmes | ... | costume set supervisor |
Sosa Juristovszky | ... | costume supervisor |
Virág Kerényi | ... | key costumer |
Virag Kiss | ... | costumer |
Heather Leat | ... | costume supervisor |
Hildegunn Meyer | ... | costume maker |
Nora Pinter | ... | costumer |
Clarke Stanley | ... | assistant costume designer |
József Szolga | ... | costumer |
Krisztina Tilhof | ... | breakdown artist |
Madeleine Tremblay | ... | costume supervisor |
Mátyás Tóth | ... | dresser |
Sarolta Udvardi | ... | crowd supervisor |
Barbara Urbanyi | ... | truck costume supervisor |
Anikó Varga | ... | breakdown/dyeing artist |
Cristy Watson | ... | truck costume supervisor |
Emma Kate Wood | ... | costume set supervisor |
Location Management
Omar Alboukharey | ... | location marshall |
Gergö Bakos | ... | supervising location manager |
Dávid Csépke | ... | location scout |
Andrew Edwards | ... | location manager: North East Unit |
Joe Gradwell | ... | location manager: 2nd unit, UK |
Paul Howard | ... | location scout uk |
Dávid Surányi | ... | location manager (as Surányi Dávid) |
Antonio Suviri | ... | locations scout: uk |
Domonkos Szász | ... | location manager |
Lex Wade | ... | location manager |
Music Department
Ray Chen | ... | soloist: violin |
Judith Clurman | ... | music supervisor |
Alan Frey | ... | Music Production Manager |
John Kurlander | ... | balance engineer |
Oliver Nelson | ... | violin coach and double |
James Sizemore | ... | Music Producer / music editor |
Script and Continuity Department
Robert Brinkschulte | ... | script translator |
Louise Thériault | ... | script supervisor (as Louise Theriault) |
Transportation Department
Marc Arsenault | ... | driver: cast, Montreal |
Péter Bánó | ... | picture car coordinator (as Bánó Péter) |
Pierre Olivier Chénard | ... | transportation coordinator: Montreal |
Sandro Di Gioacchino | ... | driver: Montreal |
David Dufresne | ... | driver: Montreal |
Philippe Gilbert | ... | transportation captain: Montreal |
Bernard Guay | ... | driver: Montreal |
Miklós Horvát | ... | transportation coordinator (as Horvát Miklós) |
Ashley Isaac | ... | unit driver |
Victor Lafond | ... | driver: cast, Montreal |
Craig Leighton | ... | driver: Mr Roth |
Tasso Mathiopoulos | ... | driver: Montreal |
Loránd Molnár | ... | transportation captain |
Simon Paquin | ... | transportation co-captain: Montreal |
Eric Paré | ... | driver: Montreal |
Martin Patrice | ... | driver: Montreal |
David Rosenbaum Jr. | ... | transportation captain |
Additional Crew
Kárász Anita | ... | stand-in |
Daniel Balogh | ... | assistant production accountant |
Zita Bognar | ... | supervising production accountant hun |
Gábor Bordi | ... | production assistant |
Martin Brisebois | ... | stand-in: Clive Owen/Montreal |
Christina Buchli | ... | legal counsel / legal counsel: Buchli Goldstein LLP |
Sandra Butterworth | ... | dialect coach |
Lizzy Carr | ... | production assistant: UK |
Kate Clark | ... | production executive: completion guarantor |
Christelle Conan | ... | Miscellaneous Crew: Executive for Ingenious Media |
Sam Courtney | ... | floor runner |
Krzysztof Czyzewski | ... | legal services |
István Darvas | ... | consultant: Judaism, Hungary |
Harriet Davis | ... | assistant: Nick Hirschkorn, UK |
Liana Dee | ... | first assistant accountant |
Péter Dóczé | ... | additional set production assistant |
Bobby Finn | ... | assistant: Mr. Owen, Canada |
Christian Fluet | ... | financial controller |
Agar Forjan | ... | for Ingenious Media |
Balázs Fényes | ... | consultant: Judaism, Hungary |
Szabina Gyori | ... | clearances |
Freddie Hatchett | ... | for Riba Films and Ingenious Media |
Mika Herzán | ... | set production assistant |
István Horváth | ... | 1st assistant production accountant (as Istvan Horvath) |
Luca Karafiáth | ... | assistant: Mr. Lantos, Hungary |
Krisztián Kozák | ... | production assistant (as Kozák Krisztián) |
Serge Lamothe | ... | consultant: director, Canada |
Danny MAlin | ... | stand in/photo double: Tim Roth |
Genna McAuliffe | ... | completion guarantor: Film Finances Canada Ltd |
Craig McElwee | ... | production assistant |
Alexandra Mecseki | ... | cashier |
Marianne Messier Petit | ... | production coordinator |
Jennifer Miller | ... | assistant: Mr. Roth, Canada |
Gábor Molnár | ... | medical team supervisor: Hungary |
Loránd Molnár | ... | production assistant: Hungary |
György Márkus | ... | unit technician |
Chantal Neveu | ... | executive assistant to director (as Chantal Neveau) |
János Nádel | ... | assistant: Mr. Lantos, Hungary |
Hannah Owen | ... | assistant to director |
János Papp | ... | health & safety advisor |
Benjamin Perkins | ... | acting coach: Luke Doyle |
Ceris Price | ... | publicist |
János Prihoda | ... | immigration coordinator (as Janos Prihoda) |
Stephanie Provato | ... | legal counsel |
Fári Péter | ... | Safety & Security |
Wendy Saffer | ... | publicist |
Souleiman Saouli | ... | production assistant |
Veronika Sibelja | ... | location marshal: UK |
Aida Tannyan | ... | Vice President of finance: Serendipity Point Films |
Barbara Tenyér | ... | legal support |
Nóra Ternovszky | ... | assistant: Mr. Roth, Hungary |
Zsuzsanna Toronyi | ... | consultant: Judaism, Hungary |
Lipták Zita | ... | production coordinator |
Tim Bentinck | ... | adr loop group (uncredited) |
Thanks
Rebekah Gilbertson | ... | thanks |
Lindsey Hunt | ... | thanks |
Robert Messinger | ... | The Producers Wish to Thank |
Andrew G. Vajna | ... | special thanks: R.I.P. |
Production Companies
- Serendipity Point Films (produced by)
- Lyla Films
- Feel Films (in association with)
- Film House Germany (in association with)
- Echelon Productions, Inc. (Production Services)
- Feel Films
- Ingenious Media (presents)
- Proton Cinema
- Riba Films
- Serendipity Point Films
Distributors
- Elevation Pictures (2019) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Classics (2019) (United States) (theatrical)
- GEM Entertainment (2019) (Non-US) (multi-territory)
- Kinostar Filmverleih (2020) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Paradise Group (2020) (Russia) (theatrical)
- Shaw Organisation (2020) (Singapore) (theatrical)
- Filmax (2020) (Spain)
- Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2020) (United Arab Emirates) (Middle East, North Africa and Iran)
Special Effects
- Alchemy 24 (digital visual effects)
Other Companies
- 80 HERTZ (adr recording studio)
- A & R Brochu Construction (set construction company)
- Abacus Consult (accounting)
- Audio FX (sound editing services)
- BBC Motion Gallery (stock footage)
- Bell Sound Studios (adr recording studio)
- Brownian Motion (camera equipment: UK)
- Buchli Goldstein (legal services)
- Chop Chop Films (dit equipment: Canada)
- Cinepool (grip and lighting equipment: Canada)
- Computer Cine System (camera equipment: Poland)
- Decca Classics (soundtrack)
- Direct Digital Pictures (camera equipment: UK)
- Film Finances (completion guarantee)
- Freeway CAM B.V. (worldwide revenue collected and distributed by)
- Gallagher Entertainment (insurance brokerage)
- Getty Images (stock footage)
- Goldcrest (adr recording studio)
- Hungarian Music Academy (special thanks)
- Impression Music Company (score published by)
- Korda Studios (sound stage: Hungary)
- Krzysztof Czyzewski KC Legal (legal: Poland)
- L'Église du Trés-Saint-Nom-de-Jésus (score recorded at)
- Lussier-Khouzam (legal services: Québec)
- MELS (re-recording & foley studios)
- MELS (sound post-production)
- MIPA Management (financial consultants)
- MTL Grandé Studios (camera equipment: Canada)
- Media Access Solutions (grip and lighting equipment: UK)
- No Sugar Films (production services: Poland)
- Panalux (camera equipment: UK)
- Panavision Polska (camera equipment: Poland)
- Post-Moderne (video post-production)
- Preiskel & Co (legals: Feel Films)
- Pétrie Raymond et Associés (auditor)
- Royal Bank of Canada (production financing)
- Réal Picture Car (picture cars: Canada)
- S.L. Video (camera equipment: UK)
- Schedule 2 (worldwide technical services and delivery)
- Sheridans (legal services)
- Showrisk (insurance broker: Hungary)
- Skot Matlgorzata Birnbach (accounting: Poland)
- SkyLite Balloons (grip and lighting equipment: UK)
- Société Radio-Canada (score mixed at)
- South Fifth Avenue Publishing (score published by)
- Technicolor (adr recording studio)
- Third Law Productions (driving plates)
- Treblinka Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom (special thanks)
- VisionTeam (grip and lighting equipment: Hungary)
- Zoom Casting (casting)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Dovidl Rapoport and Martin Simmonds grew up as best friends, each considering the other like a brother. Their close relationship was despite their rocky start upon their initial meeting at age nine, when Dovidl's father, Zygmunt Rapoport, of Jewish faith from Warsaw, brought Dovidl, a violin prodigy, to London both to continue his violin tutelage and to get him out of Poland in 1939, with Martin's parents, Gilbert and Enid Simmonds, they an upper class musical family, taking Dovidl in as Zygmunt returned to Warsaw to rejoin the rest of his family. That rocky start was due to Gilbert giving Dovidl seemingly favored status as a guest in their house, as Gilbert vowed to Zygmunt that they would maintain Dovidl's Jewish faith (despite Dovidl growing further and further away from that aspect of his life as he grew into his late teen and early adult years), and in Dovidl's musical gifts far outstripping Martin's, he a talented enough pianist in his own right. That friendship hit an abrupt end of sorts when Dovidl failed to show up for his first major featured concert in London in 1951, he seemingly disappearing into thin air on his own volition. Dovidl's failure to perform that evening led to financial ruin for the Simmonds, with Gilbert passing of a heart attack a few months later arguably a further result. It's now 1986, and Martin, prominently working in the music business in London, has searched for Dovidl over all these years partly in wanting to deal with what he considers unfinished business, and as he believes that Dovidl may not have had someone to look out for him as he would have. Martin comes into evidence of Dovidl's recent whereabouts. Two parallel stories are then told, the first Martin and Dovidl's time together from 1939 to 1951 which may provide some clues as to why Dovidl left, and the second as Martin follows the leads to locate his "brother". Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | They Began as Rivals, Then Became Brothers. One of Them Disappears. An Obsessive Search Over Two Continents and a Half Century Begins. See more » |
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Trivia | Saul Rubinek (Mr. Feinman) is the son of Holocaust survivors and was born in a refugee camp in Germany. See more » |
Goofs | The Yellow Cab used in the film is 1991-1996 Chevrolet Caprice. This sequence of film took place in the first half of 1980s. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in 2020 Canadian Screen Awards for Cinematic Arts (2020). See more » |
Soundtracks | Partita for Violin No. 2, Chaconne (Clarinet Arrangement) See more » |
Quotes |
Martin:
It's NOT a competition. Helen: Everything's a competition, read your Darwin. See more » |