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  • 4/6/2025
United States, 1926: Dutch 24-year-old Willy Wolters has immigrated to the American continent with her parents as a chil | dG1fQUxiQUFOZ0w3Z0U
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00:00No, please, I want to stay, but I have to see him.
00:11We need to get her out.
00:15A great musician should be treated with respect.
00:18You're fired.
00:19Aren't you the girl that sat down in the front of my concert?
00:26You?
00:28She wants to be a conductor.
00:36Do you know who he is?
00:38Frank Thompson, one of the most important concert managers.
00:52Women don't become conductors.
00:54They can't leave.
00:56I'm going on a journey soon.
00:57You can't go.
00:58Why not?
00:59Because I can't miss you anymore.
01:01She wrote me from Berlin.
01:03Berlin?
01:04She wants to enter the Master School of Conducting.
01:06I brought a letter of recommendation.
01:11You can't push people away as if nobody cares.
01:17This is your big day.
01:22I'll never accept her.
01:25People want to see you fail.
01:29You can't just walk away.
01:31We have an agreement.
01:33I won't take orders from a woman who doesn't know her place.
01:36One woman facing 100 men.
01:40With or without your help, sir, I will become a conductor.
01:45There's no passion involved.
01:47She only took up conducting because she wasn't a talented pianist.
01:50It's an abnormality.
01:51What?
01:52Women?
01:53It goes against all musical tradition.
01:57This world will never let you go.
02:12Who is this lady?
02:13Brico.
02:15Antonia Brico.

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