21 Nov 2007
August Rush
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.
O, Fortuna! A portrait of the composer of Carmina Burana, Carl Orff
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