DramaYear2022Duration1h 50mIMDb6.5

Broken Keys

Drama

Trying to escape his war-ravaged Middle Eastern neighborhood where music has been banned, a musician embarks on a journey to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by extremists.

Trailer

Cast

Jimmy Keyrouz

Director

TY

Tarek Yaacoub

Karim

RB

Rola Beksmati

Samar

MM

Mounir Maasri

Abou Moussa

IE

Ibrahim El Kurdi

Ziad

JF

Julian Farhat

Abdallah

Sara Abi Kanaan

Maya

BB

Badih Bou Chakra

Joseph

GY

Gabriel Yammine

Mounir

Hassan Mrad

Akram

Adel Karam

Tarek

FA

Fadi Abi Samra

Bassam

LQ

Layla Qamari

Rasha

MA

Michel Adabachi

Ibrahim

SS

Said Serhan

Ahmad

RS

Rodrigue Sleiman

Riad

CA

Carlos Abou Sleiman

Religious Police

SA

Sakr Al-Baini

Sami

AD

Anthony Deek

Frias

Jimmy Keyrouz

Writer

Ellie Foumbi

Writer

ML

Moe Lattouf

Writer

Comments

6 Comments

zinebelmeskiMar 12, 2025

Broken Keys by Jimmy Keyrouz is wonderful and very well made. Cinematography and directing are at their best! The actors did a great job portraying the atrocities of the Syrian war and the terrorism that frightened the country. It's a story of hope portrayed by a piano, by the love of music not matter what! The movie wouldn't be complete without the music of the great Gabriel Yared! He doesn't disappoint!

Wenslas PassionFeb 16, 2023

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user8543879994872Feb 15, 2023

Not to be missed. Broken keys is filled with beauty, hope and resistance, in the face of obscurantism. A breathtaking journey, wonderfully served by performing actors embodying rich characters, highly convincing. A beautiful music facing the machine of war...

EdenFeb 15, 2023

I heard the movie asking for more time, maybe double the given runtime. A time to build every single character correctly, especially Abdallah. You can't leave an important character to us in such a confusing situation and without any return to his own past. Why is he confounded like that? Like he's doing things he never wanted to do. Also a time to feel the hug between two adventurers! A time to live a little bit with that piece of piano. Anw.. beautiful ending. Still thinking about ziad, the young intelligent hopeful boy. I thought he was going to fight more, like screaming, or maybe fighting kareem before closing his final scene.

nabill_officielFeb 15, 2023

Broken Keys by Jimmy Keyrouz is wonderful and very well made. Cinematography and directing are at their best! The actors did a great job portraying the atrocities of the Syrian war and the terrorism that frightened the country. It's a story of hope portrayed by a piano, by the love of music not matter what! The movie wouldn't be complete without the music of the great Gabriel Yared! He doesn't disappoint!

Alexandra Obey Feb 15, 2023

Jimmy Keyrouz's powerful, award-winning, factually inspired, moving, gut-wrenching, well-written, tension-filled, heartbreaking, violent, 110-minute, 2020 film based on his 2016 short movie Nocturne in Black in which a talented, endangered pianist (Tarek Yaacoub), who lives in a bombed-out building with his wannabe lawyer cousin (Sara Abi Kanaan) in a war-ravaged, ISIS-controlled Syrian town where music is forbidden, decides to fix his mother's bullet-ridden piano with the help of a Kurdish resistance soldier (Rola Beksmati) to sell to his shop owner boss (Mounir Maasri) to earn money to pay a smuggler so that he can hopefully twinkle the keys in an European orchestra and to help a resilient, orphaned boy (Ibrahim El Kurdi) have a life he deserves while working with the underground resistance to defeat terrorizing Islamist extremist fighters (Julian Farhat, et al.).

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