In Film
- The concerto features significantly in David Lean's 1945 film Brief Encounter
- it was used in Billy Wilder's 1955 film The Seven Year Itch
- it features briefly in a 1956 Soviet film Spring on a Street Across the River (Весна на Заречной улице) in a radio broadcast performed by Lev Oborin.
- it features significantly in both the Japanese anime (2007) and award-winning TV versions (2008) of Nodame Cantabile
- it features prominently in Clint Eastwood's 2010 film Hereafter
Read more about this topic: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
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