The Red Violin (
French:
Le Violon rouge,
German:
Die Rote Geige,
Italian:
Il Violino Rosso,
Mandarin: 红提琴) is a
Canadian film released on
November 13,
1998 (in the
USA on
June 11,
1999). The film received an
Academy Award for the
Best Original Score (
John Corigliano), 8
Genie Awards, 9
Jutra Awards, a
Golden Reel Award (for
sound editing), and a
Best Artistic Contribution Award from the
Tokyo International Film Festival. The film is notable in that
dialogue is spoken in the
language appropriate to each
setting, with
subtitles. It was the first film since
Grand Illusion (
1937), directed by
Jean Renoir, to have dialogue in more than four languages (in this case five):
Italian,
German,
French,
Mandarin and
English. While the film's title actually contains words in all five languages, it is generally known by either the English or the French portions.