Cravata galbenă (The Yellow Tie)

Sergiu Celibidache (1912–1996) was the most important conductor from Romania in the 20th century. His son Serge Ioan Celebidachi, born 1968 in Paris, has now dedicated a biographical film to him. In an intertwined movement, a complex life story unfolds. John Malkovich plays the reclusive old master in his exile near Paris, a revered genius in the interpretation of classical works, caught up in a stubborn defensive struggle against the music industry, which is just becoming digitalized. In a parallel line, in flashbacks, the eventful life of Celibidache unfolds. Childhood and youth in Iași, born into an upper-class family, from which he is cast out by his strict father, who wants to see him as a future prime minister, because of his passion for music. A long road, via exile in Paris and in war-ravaged Berlin, in search of a musical career – rise, fall and re-rise – a spectacular life journey.