Le violon de Rothschild
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. The film includes a filmed version of the opera itself.
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Released
- 1996
Details
Release year: 1996
Storyline
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. The film includes a filmed version of the opera itself.
Top credits
- Sergey Makovetskiy — Dmitri Shostakovich
- Dainius Kazlauskas — Benjamin Fleischmann
- Tõnu Kark — The Minister
- Tarmo Männard — Moishe Vainberg