The Legend of 1900

Year:

1998

Duration:

165 min | 123 min (international version)

Genres:

Drama | Music | Romance

IMDB rate:

8.1

Director:

Giuseppe Tornatore

Awards:

Won Golden Globe. Another 17 wins & 7 nominations

Details

Country: Italy

Release Date: 1998-10-28

Filming Locations: Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Earnings

Budget: $9,000,000

Opening Weekend: $39,200 (USA) (31 October 1999)

Gross: $259,127 (USA) (12 December 1999)

Cast

Actor

Character

Mélanie Thierry

Pruitt Taylor Vince

The Legend of 1900

Tim Roth

Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'

Bill Nunn

Danny Boodmann

Clarence Williams III

Jelly Roll Morton

Gabriele Lavia

Farmer

Peter Vaughan

'Pops', the Shopkeeper

Niall O'Brien

Harbor Master

Alberto Vazquez

Mexican Stoker

Luigi De Luca

Neapolitan Stoker

Femi Elufowoju Jr.

Black Stoker (as Femi Elufowoja Jr.)

Nigel Fan

Chinese Stoker

Roger Monk

Irish Stoker

Leonid Zaslavski

Polish Stoker

Bernard Padden

Boatswain

Wilson Di Bois

Wireless Operator

Easton Gage

Lemon - age 4

Cory Buck

Lemon - age 8

Norman Chancer

Impresario

Sidney Cole

Musician

Harry Ditson

Captain Smith

Andrew Dunford

Foreman

Eamon Geoghegan

Sergeant

Steven Luotto

Blind Helmsman

Gianluigi Molteni

Inspector

Noriko Aida

Mattress Maker (as Aida Noriko)

Vernon Nurse

Fritz Hermann

Bryan Pringle

Civil Servant

Ivan Truol Troncoso

Stowaway (as Ivan Renato Tuol Troncoso)

Heathcote Williams

Doctor Klauserman

Agostino Di Giorgio

Banjo Player

Piero Gimondo

Clarinet Player

Stefano Pagin

Bass Player (as Stefano Pagni)

Michael Supnick

Trombone

Adriano Wajskol

Drummer

John Armstead

Katy Monique Cuom

Nicola Di Pinto

Emanuele Gullotto

Michael Koroukin

Adrian McCourt

Kevin McNally

Masa Mbatha Opasha

Riccardo Pellegrino

Shaila Rubin

Beniamino Vitale

Paul Richard Wood

Anita Zagaria

Pierluigi Coppola

(uncredited)

Angelo Di Loreta

The Cook (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

There was actually a registered ship named the SS Virginian which was built in 1904 and scrapped around 1954. The ship had one funnel with the Allan Liner's colors on it. The SS Virginian also had a vital part in the Titanic disaster in April 1912 as she was reported near the vicinity of the sinking and within radio contact.

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Tim Roth can not, in fact, play the piano. He trained for six months to be able to "fake it" for the film.

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Exterior shots of the ship are the inspired blueprints of the SS Lusitania and her sister ship the SS Mauritania. The ballroom in which 1900 plays his piano in had a dome similar to the dome the SS Mauritania had in her ballroom during the transatlantic period.

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Goofs

After Danny Boodmann's funeral when the scene shifts to Max talking to the shopkeeper, he says "1800" not "1900".

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When the passengers first see the Statue of Liberty, it is shown reflected in the sea. However, the reflection appears to be an image of the statue laid flat on the surface of the water, whereas a real reflection should appear to extend straight down below the surface.

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The recording equipment used for making the record was clearly acoustic in nature, showing large horns. This type of recording was largely replaced in 1925 by electrical recording, using microphones. Yet the recording was made somewhere between 1927 and 1933, according to Tooney's story. Furthermore, the recording engineer played back the matrix immediately; this would have ruined the matrix, which was cut in wax. In those days, immediate playback was only possible using a 2nd set of equipment expressly for that purpose.

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Quotes

1900: Winter comes, you wish it was summer. Summer comes, you live in dread of winter. That's why we never tire of travel.

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Max: I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.

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Max: Leave the ship, marry a nice woman, and have children. All those things in life which are not immense but are worth the effort.

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Faq

Q

How does he know that the girl is the daughter of the old man he talked to?

A

During the raining scene, the pianist hears the girl saying that once her father heard the voice of the ocean. That was exactly what her father had told the pianist years before. Moreover, the old man said his 5 sons were dead, and he had only 1 daughter left.

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