Rothschild's Violin

(1996)

★ 7 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1996

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: Hungary, France

Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky

Cast: Сергей Маковецкий, Dainius Kazlauskas, Тыну Карк, Тармо Мяннард, Tamara Solodovnikova, Кальё Кийск, Эпп Ээспяев, Kirill Shigaev, Катарийна Унт, Сулев Луйк

Plot

1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera, during Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". Jewish motifs enter Shostakovich's own work.