Brilliant conductor Andre Previn leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a stirring performance of Brahms's "Symphony No. 4." As part of the recorded series Sounds Magnificent: The Story of the Symphony, Previn introduces the Brahms piece before offering historical background by discussing the composer's fascinating life. Other installments in the series include works by composers such as Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
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When her sister turns up dead, Julia (Linda Jones) tries to convince the cops that a notorious gangster is to blame by going undercover as a prisoner to unearth the only witness to the crime.
Berlin in the early 1930s. Bello is an unemployed young man who loves the underage Frieda. In order to earn a living for both of them, Frieda goes on the streets.
The criminalist Hannes Bergemann tries to blackmail the city where he spent his youth. After many years returning to the familiar places of his childhood, he hopes to meet again his old friends, especially Fred, Helmuth and Richard, with whom he had a close childhood friendship.
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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