At the dawn of the 20th century, massive waves of emigrants flock to the ports bound for the United States. Aboard the luxury ocean liners travel elegant bourgeois passengers, but also emigrants. On the RMS Virginian, coal stoker Danny Buckman finds an abandoned boy atop a piano and decides to adopt him. Buckman works with coal, far from the first-class passengers, and the discovery suddenly places him before a responsibility he never expected. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, the film stars Tim Roth and Pruitt Taylor Vince, and is based on Alessandro Baricco's stage monologue Novecento. The entire story unfolds aboard the ship, an enclosed space where those who pay for luxury tickets and those who travel in far different conditions coexist.
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The youngest in the main cast: Mélanie Thierry, age 18 at release. The oldest: Peter Vaughan, at 76.
Sources: Wikipedia (English) · Wikipedia (Spanish)
Main theme: jazz, social isolation, genius
It was released in 31 countries, each in its own language.
SpainLa leyenda del pianista en el océano
France1900, la légende du pianiste sur l'océan
GermanyDie Legende vom Ozeanpianisten
MexicoLa leyenda de 1900
BrazilA Lenda do Pianista do Mar
PortugalA Lenda de 1900
Japan海の上のピアニスト
South Korea피아니스트의 전설
China海上钢琴家
RussiaЛегенда о пианисте
BulgariaЛегенда за пианиста
CzechiaLegenda o „1900“
DenmarkLegenden om pianisten på havet
FinlandLegenda nimeltään 1900
GreeceΟ Μύθος του 1900
Hong Kong聲光伴我飛
HungaryAz óceánjáró zongorista legendája
Iranافسانه ۱۹۰۰
Israelאגדת הפסנתרן
LithuaniaLegenda apie pianistą
MalaysiaThe Legend of 1900
Poland1900: Człowiek legenda
RomaniaPovestea pianistului de pe ocean
SerbiaЛегенда о пианисти на океану
SlovakiaLegenda o pianistovi
SwedenPianisten
Taiwan海上鋼琴師
Thailandตำนานนายพันเก้า หัวใจรักจากท้องทะเล
Turkey1900 Efsanesi
UkraineЛегенда про 1900
VietnamHuyền Thoại Về 1900There are no scenes during or after the credits.
Filming
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It wasn't what I saw that stopped me Max... it was what I didn't see.
I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.
Take piano: keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You're infinite.... And on those keys, the music that you can make... is infinite. I like that. That I can live by....
You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.
Christ, did you... did you see the streets, just the streets? There were thousands of them! Then how you do it down there, 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...?
Sometimes that is the way you have to do it: you go right back to the beginning.
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Original music by Ennio Morricone
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