Song of Names, The

When a talented 9-year-old Jewish violin prodigy (Luke Doyle/Jonah Hauer-King) from Warsaw is raised by a wealthy English couple (Stanley Townsend and Amy Sloan) in London during WWII and is eventually befriended by the couple's jealous, piano-playing son (Misha Handley/Gerran Hall) but ends up mysteriously disappearing before the virtuoso was scheduled to perform in 1951 at a sold-out concert in this captivating, moving, heartbreaking, gorgeously photography, somber, star-dotted (Eddie Izzard, Richard Bremmer, and Saul Rubinek), 113-minute film based on Norman Lebrecht's 2002 novel, thirty-five years later the curious British music examiner (Tim Roth) with the support of his wife (Catherine McCormack) searches throughout Europe for his childhood best friend (Clive Owen).
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