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Joe's Violin

6.3(20)201624m1

A 91-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the nation’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own.

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English
  • woman director
  • short film

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    • PremiereTribeca Film Festival14 Apr 2016

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Joe's Violin was released on 14 April 2016.

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    CinemaSerf

    1/22/2026

    7/10

    Born in Poland in 1923, Joe grew up with his parents and siblings in a musical household where he played the violin and was happy until the Nazis invaded. Worried for their safety, his parents split up and he, aged just seventeen, and his father headed for the Soviet section from where he was sent to Siberia for the duration. Returning and then making his way to New York after the war, he acquired a violin which over…

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