Daniel Hope - The Sound of Life

Daniel Hope is one of the greatest violinists of our age. His biography is a story of an extraordinary career, a story of escape, expulsion and desire for self-discovery.

The documentary follows the violinist on a personal pilgrimage. Hope revisits his roots and through his travels we learn of the forces that shaped him as a person and a musician, from his Jewish grandparents who fled Nazi Germany to South Africa, via his own parents’ opposition to the apartheid regime and subsequent expulsion, and the influence of his great mentor Yehudi Menuhin.