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A Song to Remember

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A Song to Remember (1945)

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Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Synopsis: This lavish musical biography follows the life of the pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin from his humble beginnings as a child prodigy in Poland. Later, in protest against Czarist rule in their... This lavish musical biography follows the life of the pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin from his humble beginnings as a child prodigy in Poland. Later, in protest against Czarist rule in their native country, the 22-year-old Chopin and his music teacher flee to Paris. But Chopin falls in love with the writer George Sand and, instead of performing in Europe, he goes off with her to Majorca. However, Chopin's political convictions resurface and even though he's gravely ill, he undertakes a concert tour to raise funds for the liberation of Poland. [More]

Starring: Cornel Wilde, Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Nina Foch

Starring: Cornel Wilde, Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Nina Foch, George Coulouris, Howard Freeman, Stephen Bekassy, George Macready

Director: Charles Vidor

Director: Charles Vidor
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Screenwriter: Sidney Buchman
Composer: Miklos Rozsa

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Indefensible as either art or history, Charles Vidor's Chopin biopic is the absolute textbook definition of kitsch.

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The melodrama is pretty forced, but the music is superb.

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