The Legend of 1900
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cicci Santucci
Gabriele Lavia
Cory Buck
Leonid Zaslavski
Roger Monk
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
An orphan is born on a cruise ship in 1900, and left in a lemon crate in the ballroom. The baby is raised by a machinist on the ship, Danny Boodman, who hides him in the great ship's belly. The boy becomes known simply as 1900. Knowing nothing of the world beyond the coal room and his porthole view of the sea, 1900 is devastated when his 'adopted father' is fatally wounded in a terrible ship accident. Following Danny's death, 1900 evades the captain's attempts to send him ashore to an orphanage. 1900 saves himself when he wanders into first class and finds a shipboard piano -- discovering he is a prodigy who can naturally play glorious, soulful music. He begins playing for the passengers, both rich upstairs and poor below decks. When he grows up, 1900 falls for a New York girl, but has never been on land in his life, and so is too fearful to follow her. His life is lived entirely on board the ship -- eventually, 1900 fades into obscurity -- only a rare recording proves his existence.
Director
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast
Cicci Santucci
Gabriele Lavia
Cory Buck
Leonid Zaslavski
Roger Monk
Wilson Du Bois
Dario Penne
Heathcote Williams
Steven Luotto
Mas Mbatha Opasha
Luis Molteni
Vernon Nurse
Anita Zagaria
Vittorio Stagni
Michael Supnick
Clarence Williams Iii
Saverio Moriones
Vittorio Di Prima
Graziano Giusti
Riccardo Pellegrino
John Armstead
Nial O'brien
Emanuele Gullotto
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Luigi De Luca
Shaila Rubin
Easton Gage
Norman Chancer
Corrado Pani
Andrew Dunford
Cesare Barbetti
Nando Paone
Mélanie Thierry
Julien Lovett
Adriano Wajskol
Mark Hamilyn
Monica Bertolotti
Peter Vaughan
Sidney Cole
Michael Koroukin
Paolo Bonacelli
Aida Noriko
Paolo Triestino
Alberto Vazquez
Massimo Popolizio
Carla Valli
Tim Roth
Kevin Mcnally
Adrian Mccourt
Stefano Pagni
Katy Monique Cuom
Agostino Di Giorgio
Nigel Fan
Paul Richard Wood
Piero Gimondo
Ivan Truol Troncoso
Michael Applebaum
Nicola Dipinto
Ermanno Ribaudo
Harry Ditson
Femi Elufowoju Jr.
Angelo Nicotra
Bryan Pringle
Benjamin Vitale
Eamon Geoghegan
Bernard Padden
Bill Nunn
Crew
Joe Adams
Joe Adams
Renato Agostini
Nick Alexander
Damiano Antinori
Fausto Anzelmo
Phil Attfield
Solo Avital
Stefano Ballirano
Cesare Barbetti
Cesare Barbetti
Cesare Barbetti
Alessandro Baricco
Stefano Barile
Daniele Barlone
Alessia Bassi
Denver M. Beattie
Richard Beggs
Marta Billingsley
Michael Billingsley
Michael Billingsley
Federico Bozzano
Alexander Bresinsky
Manfred Buettner
Marcello Buffa
David Bush
Gilda Butta
Valeria Campana
Donald Campbell
Roberto Cappannelli
Inti Carboni
Simon Carr
Philip Carter
Fabrizio Castellani
Fabrizio Castellani
Bruno Cesari
Marco Chimenz
Davide Cincis
Alessandro Cioffi
Silvia Cipparoli
Peter Connelly
Michael Conner
Maurizio Corrado
Paul Cotsen
Neil Cunningham
Peter Cvijanovic
Emanuele D'arrigo
Stella D'onofrio
Stella D'onofrio
Cesare De Natale
Daniele De Santis
Enrico Demelis
Ugo Derossi
Marina Di Patrizi
Wilson Du Bois
Paddy Eason
Matteo Eleni
Rebecca Elliot
Laura Fattori
Roberta Federico
Biagio Fersini
Mario Francini
Mario Francini
Renato Francola
Francesco Frigeri
Kristina Gahlin
Giovanni Gebbia
Giovanni Gebbia
Ben Goldschmied
Judith Goodman
Francesco Grant
Matthew Hancock
Carla Indoni
Giorgio Innocenti
Pietro Iodice
Thomas Richard Johnson
Scott Joplin
Jack Judge
Jasmin Karehalli
Lajos Koltai
Lajos Koltai
Oleg Korotenko
Andrea Lancia
Silvia Landro
Sharon Lark
Lasairfhiona Lawless
Enrico Lucidi
Enrico Lucidi
Enrico Lucidi
George Maihofer
Cristiano Mariani
Fabian Marquez
Adrian Martin
Gianni Marzagalli
Walter Masi
Enzo Mastrantonio
Valerie Mccaffrey
Ian Menzies
Maurizio Millenotti
Charles Morin
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Jelly Roll Morton
Germano Natali
Edmondo Natlai
Riccardo Neri
Lucia Nigri
Prescott Niles
Pietro Notarianni
Andrea Nuzzolo
Gianni Oddi
Filippo Olivari
Gruff Owen
Renata Paccarie
Alessandro Panatteri
Guido Pappada
Roberto Petrozzi
Maurizio Pigna
Marcello Piras
Gianluca Pumpo
Massimo Quaglia
Franco Ragusa
Angelo Raguseo
Silvia Ranfagni
Alberto Restelli
Luigi Rocchetti
Lilio Rosato
Shaila Rubin
Ruggero Salvadori
Maria Antonietta Salvatori
Daria Sardi
Piero Sassoroli
Claudio Savassi
Franco Sgueglia
Steve Shaw
Aldo Signoretti
Carla Simoncelli
Catherine Smith
Leontine Snel
Corrado Strada
Marios Theodosi
Amedeo Tommasi
Francesco Tornatore
Francesco Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore
Oscar Tornincasa
Ian Townsend
Fabio Massimo Travesari
Eddie Van Halen
Angelo Vannella
Catherine Veevers
Fabio Venturi
Jaime Villahermosa
Plastici Villahermosa
Hugh Waddell
Roger Waters
Roger Waters
Harry Williams
Riccardo Zanettini
Jeremy Zimmermann
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Nominated for eight 1999 David di Donatello Awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score and Best Costumes.
Released in United States Fall October 29, 1999
Expanded Release in United States November 12, 1999
Released in United States 1999
Released in United States August 1999
Released in United States September 1999
Released in United States October 1999
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 27 - September 6, 1999.
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Closing Night) August 4-14, 1999.
Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival September 16-25, 1999.
Shown at Mill Valley Film Festival October 7-17, 1999.
Laurence Fishburne was previously attached for the role of Jelly Roll Morton.
This film is Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore's first English-language feature.
Began shooting September 12, 1997.
Completed shooting late March 1998.
Limited release in Australia June 1, 2000.
Released in United States Fall October 29, 1999
Expanded Release in United States November 12, 1999
Released in United States 1999 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 27 - September 6, 1999.)
Released in United States August 1999 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (Closing Night) August 4-14, 1999.)
Released in United States September 1999 (Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival September 16-25, 1999.)
Released in United States October 1999 (Shown at Mill Valley Film Festival October 7-17, 1999.)
Released in United States October 1999 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Centerpiece Gala) October 21-29, 1999.)
