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Yehudi Menuhin: The Violin of the Century

Original title: Yehudi Menuhin: The Violin of the Century
Year: 1996
Running time: 130 min.
Country: France
Director: Bruno Monsaingeon
Cast: Documentary, Self: Yehudi Menuhin
Music: Ravi Shankar
Cinematography: Étienne Carton de Grammont
Producer: EMI
Genre: Documentary | Music Documentary
Synopsis: This film includes a wealth of archival footage, much of it hitherto unknown, documenting Yehudi Menuhin's prodigious career. I did not intend this film to be a re-make of what I, or others, had already been able to produce in preceding decades. Menuhin would tell his own story, and what modesty prevented him from saying, I would make plain by purely cinematic means. In short, I would give the film the form of a souvenir album, and it would be as if Menuhin himself was leafing through it for us, chapter by chapter. Totally cooperative with us, Menuhin threw himself into it whole-heartedly, with a great sense of humour and overwhelming humanity. All that, I believe, comes across strongly in the present film, which also carries the mark of my infinite gratitude to the man who has given to my own existence a part of its meaning. -- Bruno Monsaingeon

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Yehudi Menuhin: The Violin of the Century

1996

Bruno Monsaingeon