Ben Schnetzer To Co-Star Opposite John Malkovich In ‘The Yellow Tie’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Ben Schnetzer has signed on to star as famed Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache in The Yellow Tie replacing Rupert Friend.
Schnetzer will have a central role in the feature, playing the young Celibidache with John Malkovich set to play an older version of the conductor.
The film maps the extraordinary life of legendary classical music conductor Sergiu Celibidache, one of the most celebrated but also one of the most controversial artists of the twentieth century.
From his childhood in Romania under the draconian authority of a disciplinarian father, to his painful flight from home to pursue his dream of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany and his rise, fall and rise again, in a truly unimaginable career and life path, spanning seven decades and all four corners of the globe.
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