
Music of the Heart(1999)
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.



Klaus Kinski
Niccolo Paganini

Debora Caprioglio
Antonia Bianchi (as Debora Kinski)

Nikolai Kinski
Achille Paganini

Dalila Di Lazzaro
Helene von Feuerbach

Tosca D'Aquino
Angiolina Cavanna

Bernard Blier
Pater Caffarelli

Marcel Marceau
Pantomime

Eva Grimaldi
Marie Anna Elise Bonaparte

André Thorent
Galvano

Fabio Carfora
Mr. Watson
Paganini is a drama, music film released in 1990 exploring themes of child abuse, rape, italy, violin, eroticism, classical music. Directed by Klaus Kinski, it stars Klaus Kinski, Debora Caprioglio, Nikolai Kinski. Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.
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