The Copyist (2001)

During the Second World War, Hugo Autere, an elderly cellist with the Helsinki Philharmonic, gets a secret assignment from Finnish composer Jean Sibelius to copy the manuscript of the master's long-awaited 8th Symphony. While working on the score, Hugo is suddenly inspired to revive his own composing skills, but is soon faced with his own mediocrity in front of a true talent. Meetings between Autere and Sibelius remain quite formal, but the cellist's musically-talented young grandson befriends the famous composer on a more human level.