Rothschild's Violin

Directed by Edgardo Cozarinsky
1996    1h 41m
Biography, Music, Musical
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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.
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Cast of Rothschild's Violin
  • Sergei MakovetskyShostakovich
  • Dainius KazlauskasBenjamin Fleischmann
  • Tõnu KarkThe Minister
  • Tarmo MännardMoishe Vainberg
  • Tamara SolodovnikovaAunt Nadezhda
  • Kaljo Kiisk
  • Epp EespäevMme Shostakovich
  • Kirill ShigaevMaxim Shostakovich
  • Katariina Unt
  • Sulev Luik
  • Mari TörőcsikMarfa
  • Miklós Székely B.Bronza
  • Sándor ZsótérRothschild
  • Ferenc JávoriShakhes
  • Kirsi Mari LepikFleischmann's Daughter

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