The Legend of 1900
An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary
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Production
Budget
$9 000 000
Revenue
$20 678 716
Director
Actors
Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn, Gabriele Lavia, Clarence Williams III, Peter Vaughan, Niall O'Brien, Alberto Vazquez, Luca De Luigi
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Francesco Tornatore, Marco Chimenz, Laura Fattori
Operator
Composer
Artist
Francesco Frigeri
Audition
Editing
Massimo Quaglia
All team (16)
All team (16)
Short description
Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.
What's left behind the scenes
- The runtime of the Italian version of the film is 170 minutes, which is 50 minutes longer than the international version.
- It can be noticed that the fracture lines of the single recorded record shown at the beginning of the film in the store do not match those that would result from gluing together the pieces into which he broke it.
- The film is based on Alessandro Baricco's novel '1900. Legend of the Pianist' (Novecento, 1994).
- Some of the filming took place in the city of Odessa (Ukraine), in the military harbor on the vessel 'Lesozavodsk,' which was fitted with an imposing pipe and decorated to resemble a ship from the early 20th century, as well as on the Potemkin Stairs, where one of the characters plays the trumpet while seated. Some filming was done in the open sea, and since 'Lesozavodsk' was moored without engines, it was towed by a rescue vessel. Once, during filming, a storm arose, and the film crew, along with the extras (over 200 people in total), had to spend the night on the ship at sea. As the ship was not prepared for this, conditions were difficult for everyone.
- The film is based on the novel 'Novecento' (1900) by Alessandro Baricco (1994).
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Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
