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– Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t..
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
14 Feb 1997
English, Yiddish
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Scott Hicks
Jan Sardi (screenplay), Scott Hicks (story)
Geoffrey Rush, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood
As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott's musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions.
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