Rothschild's Violin
Release Date: 1996-12-18
Overview: 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.
Rating: 7 / 10
Cast
Sergey Makovetskiy
as Shostakovich
Dainius Kazlauskas
as Benjamin Fleischmann
Tõnu Kark
as The Minister
Tarmo Männard
as Moishe Vainberg
Tamara Solodovnikova
as Aunt Nadezhda
Crew
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Edgardo Cozarinsky - Director
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Edgardo Cozarinsky - Writer
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Margus Õunapuu - Assistant Art Director
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Jacques Bouquin - Director of Photography
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Martine Bouquin - Editor
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