The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka: The Mystery of Chopin (1999) | Full Movie

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Warsaw, 1945. The invading Nazis are gone and, in a symbolic gesture, the preserved heart of Polish composer and national hero Frédéric Chopin is returned. Under German rule, even the mention of Chopin was forbidden; now, as the war-battered nation reassembles itself, author Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz recommences work on his biography of the great man. A strange woman contacts him, carrying revelatory letters that she claims the composer wrote her great-grandmother, his lover. But is the woman a fraud? Are the letters forgeries? And since they show Chopin in a less than flattering light, would Poland prefer to suppress them?
Stars: Paul Rhys, Penelope Wilton, Valentina Igoshina
Directed by: Tony Palmer
Genre: Drama
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[@findelka1810]

Truths and lies are mixed dangerously in both Czernicka’s letters and in this film, a dissertation wouldn’t be enough to sort them out all. But Chopin and Delfina did have a close friendship that lasted almost 20 years.

[@mylesjordan9970]

It’s strange to find music used for political purposes by so many interests anachronistically and philosophically removed from the composers’ own intentions, but the same is certainly true of Amadeus, as well as its predecessor concocted by Pushkin.

[@lucillamon]

There are a lot of imprecisions and mistakes in this movie. I 've read a lot about him and his life and keep on study his soul, it's a shame

[@Seleuce]

Most filmmakers of historical films don't bother to check their facts, or ignore some of them for dramatic reasons. I hate that in every film about a historical VIP. They could have easily rechecked their facts with the Chopin Institute in Warsaw or another credible source of information. But they probably chose to write the screen book with the help of biographies, of which most contain some false information or lack facts that were discovered only later. For example, the mysterious role of singer Jenny Lind in Chopins life, which was only researched during the last 15 years.

[@dpetrano]

@ 16:26, she would NOT have been playing a Steinway which was an American piano manufactured long after Chopin, who played and composed on a PLAYEL piano which he actually helped design.

[@neasahayes6044]

1:03 Maurice was the older of Georges Sand's two children yet Solange is shown to be the older one here.

[@mylesjordan9970]

Who is this wonderful soundtrack’s pianist?

[@boogerie]

Valentina Igoshina

[@mylesjordan9970]

@@boogerie Thanks for the info; she’s really marvellous!

[@missmurrydesign7115]

Delicious soundtrack...

[@GloriaSchneider-rw4ef]

A strange movie. I'm very unsure of what was true and what was not. I tend not to believe the first man she went to. I feel he was mostly afraid for his reputation.

[@olavwilhelm6843]

the point is .... till today . ..no one knows the truth . Referring to Paulina Czernicka's Accident (falling from a window in the 8th floor of the palce of justice) it is most likely those letters were genuine but the Communists in need of New Heros could not afford dirt on Chopins name . Hence the accident

[@nina-ciara]

Splendid! Thank you!❤🥰🙋🏼‍♀

[@marialuisa4227]

Yes, splendid

[@user-we5mi6zl2s]

Going to watch this.

[@lucashoffmann2779]

valentina igoshina plays delightfully

[@jjayaraman3191]

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka: The Mystery of Chopin 1999 P Rhys.Penelope Wilton.

[@elizabethdarley8646]

Why are the letters featured here said to be forgeries?

[@Seleuce]

Because they are. They were fake. They contained Polish words that weren't even used or known in Chopins lifetime, but were typical for Polish slang in the 1930-1940s. If one read the few hundred authentic Chopin letters published so far today (I have) one could only wonder and be suspicious about those Potocka letters. I never believed that they were real. Although Chopin had a hidden side to him that he probably only showed to a handful of people, if even that, (but did reveal in some of his letters to certain friends), the style of those letters simply doesn't sound like him.

[@trifleas1556]

Those letters are forgeries: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listy_Fryderyka_Chopina_do_Delfiny_Potockiej

[@saltech3444]

I think that is the point of the movie. That is why Potocka sometimes is played by the same elderly actress as Czernicka. You also see an image of the piano-playing younger Potocka on her piano. Therefore the images of the pianist are of Czernicka as a younger woman (she says she studied piano). That is also why there are bizarre anachronisms like electric lights in some scenes. The letters are her fantasy, an escape from the dreariness of postwar Poland.

[@RoxanneM-]

There seems to be a great effort to show he was not gay or bisexual.

[@lucillamon]

Who cares? He has been able to write such a chef d'œvre

[@carreyperea9856]

i live in lviv ukraine across the street from prince potacki palace, it is a museum now with mostly polish paintings, i wonder about the connection?

[@Rafael-oi6dj]

Some years ago a photograph of an elegantly dressed couple appeared as "unknown married couple", in a video of old photographs in KZbin that i immediately recognized as F. Chopin & G. Sand probably arriving in Mallorca if it wasn't a studio photograph; soon after i posted it, the whole video was "mysteriously" removed & afterwards a very ugly papiermâché statue from the same photo was placed at the entrance of the museum dedicated to Chopin & Sand named Valldemossa in that island The photo shows a young man with a top hat & coat reaching his knees & showing a small ring on his left hand pinky finger - she appears with her accustomed cluster of elder flowers adorning her face, both of them with hooked arms, as "married" couples should appear

[@jackiebaptiste6319]

🥰

[@user-lx9yc7rd5k]

what song is 1:40:49

[@MothersLovingArmsNursery]

I thought this was a POLISH movie, don't put a Polish title and make it English. Bunch of Bologna in this film.

[@michelbisson6645]

Today poland memory is tarnished by its union with ukrainian nazis....so sad...

[@privateprivate22]

It’s more sad that people don’t know and don’t understand it, thanks to media.

[@fox570808]

Take care of your memory and leave our's alone, putin's troll.

[@RoxanneM-]

Ukrainians are not Nazis. The Russians are. The Russians allied with the Nazis first, and then with the allies, after the German Nazis betrayed them. The Russians also did a Holocaust, it’s called the Holodomor.

[@RoxanneM-]

@@privateprivate22 , YOUR media has you misinformed, in a effort against the West.

[@elizabethdarley8646]

Yes. I think that Polish people must be very strong in their very precious Catholic faith. I hope so. Hungary is also strong in their Catholic faith I think. I am a convert to the true faith and I praise God for calling me so powerfully in 2018.