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The short life and passionate music of romantic composer Frederic Chopin provide the foundations for this 1945 drama, which proved influential in its gaudy, undeniably watchable formula of historical exaggeration and shrewdly simplified motives for its principals. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Cornel Wilde presents the Polish native as a passionate nationalist driven by his love of his native country and his hatred of its czarist regime, a thematic focus that can be forgiven in light of the political backdrop at the time of the production. Already a prodigy in his native land, where he's mentored by a shamelessly scenery-chewing Paul Muni as Professor Elsner, Chopin flees to Paris where his flashing eyes, dark nimbus of curls, and florid technique earn him stardom, while his involvement with the writer George Sand (a beautiful Merle Oberon, even when draped in then-provocatively masculine garb) introduces a romantic crescendo. Still, the tortured pianist-composer pines for his homeland, fre
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A Song To Remember[VCD] (Date: 2007-09-20)
Price($):
HK$45(US$5.8)
Publisher:Garry's Trading Company
Screen: 1.33:1
No of Disk: 2
Region Code: All
Subtitle: Chinese(Traditional)
Languages: English
Video: NTSC
Audio: Vocal Stereo
A Song To Remember (China Version)[DVD] (Date: 2005-08-01)
Price($):
HK$45(US$5.8)
Publisher:Guang Dong Audio & Visual Co Ltd
No of Disk: 1
Screen: 1.33:1
Region Code: All
Subtitle: Chinese(Traditional), Chinese(Simplified)
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages: English,Mandarin
Video: PAL
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