Rothschild's Violin

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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

101 min

Actor:

Sergey Makovetskiy, Dainius Kazlauskas, Tõnu Kark

Quality:

HD

Director:

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Release:

1996

Country:

Hungary, France, Finland, Switzerland

IMDb:

7.0