Cast and credits


     
Directed by Scott Hicks
     
Story by Scott Hicks
     
Cast:
David Helfgott - AdultGeoffrey Rush
SylviaSonia Todd
SamChris Haywood
David Helfgott - ChildAlex Rafalowicz
Eisteddfod PresenterGordon Poole
PeterArmin Mueller-Stahl
Ben RosenNicholas Bell
David Helfgott - AdolescentNoah Taylor
Isaac SternRandall Berger
Soviet Society SecretaryEdwin Hodgeman
Katharine Susannah PrichardGoogie Withers
Cecil ParkesJohn Gielgud
RayMarc Warren
GillianLynn Redgrave
     
Director of photography Geoffrey Simpson
Edited by Pip Karmel


Soundtrack

"With a Girl Like You"
by Reg Presley
performed by The Troggs

"Why Do They Doubt Our Love"
by and performed by Johnny O'Keefe

"Polonaise in A flat major, Opus 53"
by Frédéric Chopin
performed by Ricky Edwards

"Fast zu ernst - scenes from Childhood Opus 15"
by Robert Schumann
performed by Wilhelm Kempff

"La campanella" from "Violin Concerto in B Minor"
by Niccolo Paganini
transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt
performed by David Helfgott

"Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor", "Sospiro"
by Franz Liszt
performed by David Helfgott

"Flight of the Bumble Bee"
by Nikolai RimskyKorsakov
arranged by Sergei Rachmaninov
performed by David Helfgott

"Gloria, iv 589"
by Antonio Vivaldi
arranged by David Hirschfelder, Ricky Edwards

"Nulla in mundo pax sincera"
by Antonio Vivaldi
arranged by David Hirschfelder, Ricky Edwards
performed by (soprano) Jane Edwards, (harpsichord) Geoffrey Lancaster, (cello) Gerald Keuneman

"Daisy Bell"
by Harry Dacre
arranged and performed by Ricky Edwards

"Funiculi, funiculà"
by Luigi Denza
arranged by David Hirschfelder, Ricky Edwards

"Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Opus 30"
by Sergei Rachmaninov
arranged by David Hirschfelder
performed by David Helfgott

"Prelude in C sharp minor Opus 3, No. 2"
by Sergei Rachmaninov
performed by David Helfgott

"Symphony No. 9 in D minor Opus 125"
by Ludwig van Beethoven
arranged by David Hirschfelder, Ricky Edwards

"Appassionata Sonata, No. 23 in F minor Opus 57"
by Ludwig van Beethoven
performed by Ricky Edwards
Year:1996
Running time: 106 minutes 1
Country: Australia
United Kingdom
Language: English
Production Company: Australian Film Finance Corporation Limited/
Momentum Films Pty Limited/
The South Australian Film Corporation and Film Victoria.
In association with Pandora Cinema/
British Broadcasting Corporation

Dolby SR stereo
In Colour
Cinevexcolour