Shine

I learned this from watching Shine. The concerto is central to the film which tells, largely in retrospect, the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. You see him as a little boy in the 1950s, clad in those itchy short trousers, playing Chopin in a church hall competition. But the dominant character in the film is his father, Helfgott senior, a Jew who lost his faith, his sisters and parents in the holocaust, and resolved to lose nothing else. He loves his children passionately, but fears so much the losing of them that his imprisons them as securely as he nails up the garden fence. The violence of his passion drives them all from him, and all but destroys his pride and joy, his brilliant son.

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