The Red Violin
Film Series
Date: January 16, 2026
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Hoke Theatre
Price: $7 / General Admission
1999 (R) 131 min. USA/Canada/England
Director: François Girard
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli
THE RED VIOLIN traces the history of a legendary instrument across five countries and 300 years, from a workshop in Cremona, Italy to an auction of rare violins in modern day Montreal. Along the way, the violin affects the lives of a variety of people as it passes from hand to hand and generation to generation, nearly possessing those who play it. From the workshop in Cremona in the late 17th century, where the violin maker loses his wife during childbirth, the violin turns up in Vienna 100 years later in the hands of a child prodigy. From there it passes to gypsies, and then another century later, to master violinist Frederick Pope in Oxford. Next, the violin turns up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution in 1968, where its very existence is threatened, along with those who would protect it. Finally, the violin arrives at an auction house in Montreal, where American violin expert Charles Morritz races against time to discover the true nature of the seemingly haunted instrument.
“THE RED VIOLIN glows with passion…beautifully crafted, intricately designed, intensely cinematic!” – Eric Harrison, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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