The Girl Without a Soul (1917)

Belle 19 anos, é uma violinista que vive em uma pequena aldeia na Holanda. Todos ao seu redor parecem obcecados com o sexo: o namorado, a irmã e especialmente sua mãe. Mas o que interessa para Belle é unicamente seu violino e ela irá em busca de seu sonho. Mas para alcança-lo ela terá que derrubar algumas barreiras.

Mesmo um tanto atrapalhado, Ryan Harrison é um violinista notável. Mas nem toda sua fama será suficiente para livrá-lo da sentença de morte a que foi condenado pelo assassinato do milionário Hibbing Goodhue. E muito menos da sexy e insinuante viúva Lauren Goodhue. A caminho da cadeia, no entanto, o ônibus que transporta os prisioneiros sofre um terrível acidente. É a chance que Ryan precisava para escapar. Sátira do sucesso "O Fugitivo".

With 'little captain' Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy", Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.

Nasser Ali Khan, o melhor violinista de sua época, desmorona depois que sua mulher, após uma briga, quebrou seu instrumento. Ao não encontrar outro violino digno, decide morrer em sua cama, começando assim uma viagem de lembranças e alucinações.

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the love story between Jeno Varga and the music, between Jeno and Sophie.

Um vagabundo tenta ganhar dinheiro tocando violino, mas logo enfrenta a concorrência invejosa.

From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to…Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman’s violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life. Director Alison Chernick’s (The Jeff Koons Show, Matthew Barney: No Restraint) new documentary provides an intimate, cinéma vérité look at the remarkable life and career of this musician, widely considered the world’s greatest violinist. Features new interviews with the world-renowned violinist, his family, friends and colleagues including Billy Joel, Alan Alda, pianist Martha Argerich and cellist Mischa Maisky.

A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

Long ago, the evil wizard Lizardo sent an army of monsters to subjugate the land and its people. Lizardo succeeded, but a prophecy tells of a comet that will fall to Earth, and a man who will wield a weapon that will free the people from Lizardo's tyranny. Flavio is a blacksmith content with living a quiet, uneventful life in a town mostly untouched by Lizardo's evil. But when the comet of prophecy lands on the outskirts of town, Flavio's destiny is immediately made clear. Around the peace-loving but brave Flavio. His arch-enemy Lizardo attempts to ruin the peace and harmony of their dwelling place, affecting the inhabitants. Moreover, the evil warlord challenges Flavio by capturing his beautiful lady love Maria. A series of events take place, bringing the blacksmith (panday) at the forefront of a full-blown war against Lizardo's troops.

Fernando Poe, Jr. is back for the fourth time as Panday Flavio to combat evil once more.

Flavio returns as the heroic blacksmith who uses his magical sword in fighting eveil

In the absence of the genuine article, stable boy Pandoy serves as the Panday, forging a magic sword out of a meteorite and fighting pirates and white slavers. The film features a subplot of Pandoy having to choose between two romantic interests.

Violinist Mischa Elman performs a set of two of the most recognizable popular classic violin pieces: "Humoresque" composed by Antonín Dvorák, and "Gavotte" by François-Joseph Gossec. He is accompanied off screen by pianist Josef Bonime, although Bonime's instrument can be seen in the background behind Elman on screen. In one continuous single shot, the stationary camera focuses in squarely on Elman as he performs the two pieces.

Man of the people, taxi driver, Jean Carignan is above all else one of the world's greatest violinists. In his hands reels become complex, intelligent creations, played with a virtuosity worthy of Paganni, and which continue the traditions of a genre passed on orally. A genre which has retained its popularity, and whose giants include Skinner, Coleman, Allard. Jean Carignan tackles their repertoire, as well as reaping the harvest of his exploration of Irish and Scottish musical traditions, which has made of him an internationally renowned specialist in Celtic music. This film is also a love story between an impoverished child and his violin, and provide a unique window into a remarkable era.

DVD review DAVID OISTRAKH violin: EMI Classics Archive Series Bach A minor Concerto Allegro - Trio. Piu moderato Filmed London, May 1958