Numero: 99

Voto IMDB: 8.1/10 (32316 voti)

Voto Utente: 9.0/10

Paese: Italy, 165 minuti

Lingua: Inglese, Francese

Genere(i): Drammatico, Musica, Romantico

Regista: Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast: Tim Roth (come Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'), Pruitt Taylor Vince (come Max Tooney), Bill Nunn (come Danny Boodmann), Clarence Williams III (come Jelly Roll Morton), Mélanie Thierry (come The Girl), Peter Vaughan (come 'Pops', the Shopkeeper), Alberto Vazquez (come Mexican Stoker), Gabriele Lavia (come Farmer), Niall O'Brien (come Harbor Master), Luigi De Luca (come Neapolitan Stoker)

Medium: Sconosciuto

Trama: Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max, which he relates both to the shopkeeper and later to the official responsible for the doomed vessel, for Max is a born storyteller. Though now down on his luck and disillusioned by his wartime experiences, the New Orleans-born Max was once an enthusiastic and gifted young jazz musician, whose longest gig was several years with the house band aboard the Virginian, a posh cruise ship. While gaining his sea legs, he was befriended by another young man, the pianist in the same band, whose long unlikely name was Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, though everyone just called him 1900, the year of his birth. ...

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