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| Title: | SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, THE |
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| Title year: | 2003 |
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| Also known as: | LA PLUS TRISTE MUSIQUE DU MONDE |
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| Original dialogue(s): | English |
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| Version(s): | FST |
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| Running time: | 100 min 17 sec |
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| Description: | During the depths of the Great Depression, beer baroness Lady Port-Huntly announces a global competition to determine the “saddest” music in the world. Musicians from across the globe pour into Winnipeg to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. The Kent family confronts the wretched secrets of their past while locked in the competition for this greatest of prizes. Younger brother Chester, the cynical and failed Broadway producer, is ready to mesmerize all with a little Yankee Doodle razzle-dazzle hanky honker. Older brother Roderick, a cellist who has returned from post-war Serbia, is inconsolable over the disappearance of his beloved wife. Their despairing father Fyodor is tormented with guilt over the accidental amputation of the legs of his one true love, Lady Port-Huntly. To complicate matters further, enter the dark angel Narcissa, an otherworldly nymphomaniac sleepwalker who has become Chester’s latest companion and muse. |
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| Director(s): | Guy Maddin | |
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| Screen writer(s): | Guy Maddin | |
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| George Toles | |
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| Writing source: | Kazuo Ishiguro | | original screenplay |
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| Actor(s): | Mark McKinney | | |
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| Isabella Rossellini | | |
| Maria de Medeiros | | |
| David Fox | | |
| Ross McMillan | | |
| Louis Negin | | |
| Darcy Fehr | | |
| Claude Dorge | | |
| Talia Pura | | |
| Jeff Sutton | | |
| Graeme Valentin | | |
| Maggie Nagle | | |
| Victor Cowie | | |
| Jessica Burleson | | |
| Wayne Nicklas | | |
| Nancy Drake | | |
| David Gillies | | |
| Daphne Korol | | |
| Adriana O'Neil | | |
| Jeff Skinner | | |
| Craig Aftanas | | |
| Mark Boiselle | | |
| Brock MacGregor | | |
| Daniel Hawkins | | |
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| Producer(s): | Niv Fichman | |
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| Jody Shapiro | |
| Co-producers(s): | Phyllis Laing | |
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| Executive producers(s): | Daniel Iron | |
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| Atom Egoyan | |
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| Editor(s): | David Wharnsby | |
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| Musician(s): | Christopher Dedrick | |
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| Photography: | Luc Montpellier | |
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| Ruben Guzman (S8mm) | |
| Support: | 16mm and S8mm Col & BW finished format 35mm |
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| Aspect ratio: | 1.85:1 |
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| Festival(s): | Venice | August 31, 2003 |
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| Toronto | September 07, 2003 |
| Calgary | October 02, 2003 |
| Release: | Toronto | April 30, 2004 |
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| Montréal (Ex-Centris FST Cinéma du Parc) | April 30, 2004 |
| Winnipeg | April 30, 2004 |
| Vancouver | April 30, 2004 |
| New York (Landmark's Sunshine Cinema) | April 30, 2004 |
| London (U.K.) | May 07, 2004 |
| Location(s): | Winnipeg (MB) |
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| Laboratory: | Deluxe Toronto |
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| Medallion/PFA Film & Video |
| The Lab in Toronto Inc. |
| Exclusive for S8mm |
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| Distribution area: | Canada | Cn TVA Films (Groupe TVA Inc.) |
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