The Song of Names

Dec 25, 2019

1h 54m

★ 6.7

Music brought them together. Time would tear them apart.

Overview

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Genres

Drama

Music

Production Companies

Serendipity Point Films

Lyla Films

Feel Films

Film House Germany

Proton Cinema

The Song of Names Trailers

Cast

Martin Simmonds

Tim Roth

Dovidl Rapoport

Clive Owen

Helen Simmonds

Catherine McCormack

Radio Presenter

Eddie Izzard

Feinman

Saul Rubinek

Dovidl 17-23

Jonah Hauer-King

Martin 17-21

Gerran Howell

Dovidl 9-13

Luke Doyle

Martin 9-13

Misha Handley

Gilbert

Stanley Townsend

Arbuthnot Bailey

Julian Wadham

Billy

Richard Bremmer

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

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