Posted on 10/13/2019 6:40:54 PM PDT by simpson96
During the Great Depression in 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, baroness Helen Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) announces a competition to find the saddest music in the world, as a publicity stunt to promote her company, Muskeg Beer, as Prohibition is about to end in the United States. The prize is $25,000 "Depression-era dollars" and musicians from all over the world pour into Winnipeg to compete. Chester Kent (Mark McKinney), a failing Broadway producer, decides to enter the contest representing America, even though he is Canadian and originally from Winnipeg
Siam Vs Mexico - scene from "The Saddest Music in the World"
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I found this one at the Dollar Store some years back. I’ll give it another look.
What an interesting plot and premise.
This should be produced again, and updated with different kinds of music heard today.
I would be listening.
Fact Check!!
***I think they mean Isabella Rosselli’s mother
Ingrid Bergman. They did resemble each other quite closely.
Isabella would not have been born back in 1933.
The film is from 2004, I believe. It’s set in 1933, and Rossellini looks astonishingly like her mother did, in her prime.
What do you want me to get from this?
Did you like this film or hate it?
Does it speak to you on some level?
The Mexican music sounded like Phantom of the Opera.
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