Director: Alessandro Baricco
Screenplay: Alessandro Baricco
Photography: Gherardo Gossi
Music: music for String Quartet arranged and played by Mario Brunello
Cast: Noah Taylor, Clive Russel, Leonor Watling, John Hurt, Tim Barlow, Natalia Tena, Andy Gathergood, Daniel Tuite, Rasmus Hardiker, Phyllida Law, Adrian Moore, Matthew Reynolds, Clive Riche, Franco Pistoni, Chiara Paoli, Daniel Harding
Editing: Giogiò Franchini
Production: Domenico Procacci for Fandango, Coproduction Potboiler Productions (GB). In collaboration with Rai Cinema, with the support of Mi BAC and that of Provincia Autonoma di Trento
International Distribution: Fandango Portobello Sales, London Office 12 Addison Avenue, Holland Park London, W11 4QR, United Kingdom, tel. +44 (0) 20 76 05 13 96, fax +44 (0) 20 76 05 13 91, janine@fandangoportobello.com, www.fandango.it
Year: 2008. Running Time: 92’
Film stock Kodak

 

Professor Mondrian Killroy (John Hurt) was a brilliant and eccentric English academic. Adored by his students, for years he gave classes unlike any others. His lecture 21 made a particular impact on young minds. It focused exclusively on the genesis of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. But Killroy has disappeared and only Martha (Leonor Watling), a favorite student of his, knows where he is. She wants to listen one last time to that extraordinary Lecture 21.