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The film was an international co-production between companies in Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom. The film tells the story of a perfect violin known as the "Red Violin.

As the bidding starts, the violin's history is revealed, showing that the violin has been in existence for over years, having been made in Its history is told in five stories set in different locations around the world-Cremona, Vienna, Oxford, Shanghai, and Montreal. These stories are told in chronological order except for the Cremona and Montreal stories, which are intersected into the others with each change of location and as the tarot reading and the auction develop. The auction is used as a framing device for the first four stories in the film.

After the fourth story, we see the complicated resolution to the auction sequence with no further cutaways to the other four stories. To its owners, the violin causes anger, betrayal, love, and sacrifice. In each setting the dialogue is spoken in the appropriate language. Also, a variation of the movie's signature violin solo by composer John Corigliano is played at least once in the period it is played, with the exception of Cremona, where the solo is This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema.

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