Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36718 in DVD
• Published on: 1945
• Formats: NTSC, Color, Dolby, Import, Full Screen
• Subtitled in: Mandarin Chinese
• Running time: 112 minutes

Customer Reviews

ITURBI PLAYS CHOPIN - WOW!
I have loved this movie ever since I saw it as a child. Who cares if the details of Chopin's life are not quite accurate? Most biopics of musicians aren't. This picture is to revel in the beauty of Chopin's music and ESPECIALLY Iturbi's rendition. Priceless - you can't find it on CD's and in my opinion, no-one does it better. It also doesn't hurt that Wilde is gorgeous to look at and fingers most of the pieces amazingly well considering he did not play the piano at all! And they DO show his hands - a lot! I sometimes get so caught up in watching him I forget to listen - - I have to wonder if Iturbi himself didn't coach him. This ability, and the last scenes where Wilde grows progressively sicker as he struggles to complete his concert tour was certainly worth the Oscar nomination. Also, Merle Oberon is coldly beautiful, and Muni pretty much steals every scene he is in. Wonderful color, too. Enjoy it as a semi-fictional story, a musical tribute to one of the greatest composers of all time, and be reminded once again of the genius of Iturbi. I have listened to many, many other artists play Chopin and none of them seem to be able to get it quite right.

Period Perfection
Excellent "period piece", sometimes overacted by Muni, featuring many of "Chopin's" best pieces. Wild, as the tortured Chopin and Oberon as the coldhearted, overbearing Sands are superb!

A SONG TO REMEMBER
I HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS MOVIE FOR YEARS. NETFLIX INFORMED ME THAT THIS MOVIE WAS LOCKED UP IN A VAULT BUT THEY WOULD TRY TO GET ME THE MOVIE. I'M STILL WAITING, UNTIL NOW, I CAN WATCH IT (ALONG WITH THE FAMILY) OVER AND OVER. THANKS, I AM HAPPY NOW. VERY WELL PLAYED.