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SARASATE THE KING OF THE VIOLIN (SARASATE, EL REY DEL VIOLÍN)
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Completed - SPANISH, ENGLISH, CANTONESE - Musical, Biography, Documentary - 75 minutes

Log Line

First full documentary about Pablo Sarasate, one of the best violinists in the world, with the amazing confessions of his only great-nephew, still alive, with 92 years old.

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Joaquin CALDERON
Writer(s) : Joaquin CALDERON
Cast : Inma ISLA, Javi COLL, Unai MADURGA, Rubén SANZ, Ara MALIKIAM, Tianwa YANG, Alexandre DE LA CERDA, Rafael MORENO, Anna RADOMSKA, Maria NAGORE, Ana Maria VALDERRAMA, Hermanos AZNAREZ, Manuel GUILLEN, Javier TRIAS, Joseph GOLD, Pacho FLORES, Christian IFRIM, María Jesús ARTAIZ

Producer(s) : Joaquin CALDERON (ARQUETIPO COMUNICACIÓN)

Synopsis

Pablo Sarasate was one of the best violinists in the world, surpassing the very Paganini.
The film explores through the Polish violinist Anna Radomska, and numerous chats with experts musicologists, Pablo’s technique and career. 
Through fictionalized sequences, we will discover his complex personality and the relationship with his mother and great friend, Julian Gayarre, the famous tenor.
We will also see how his compositions are still alive and are part of the repertoire of the most important current violinists, as the Armenian Ara Malikian, or Chinese Yang among other.
Finally, the confessions of his only great-nephew, still alive, will discover the strange events around his death, and the life of a child prodigy marked by tragedy, who knew how to win the highest social spheres of the early XIX Century.

Production

Country(ies) : SPAIN

Festivals and Awards

DocCorner 2015


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