Rothschild's Violin

Rothschild's Violin was released on December 18, 1996.

Rothschild's Violin was directed by Edgardo Cozarinsky.

Rothschild's Violin has a runtime of 1h 41m.

Rothschild's Violin was produced by Tamás Hutlassa, Serge Lalou.

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.

The key characters in Rothschild's Violin are Shostakovich (Sergey Makovetskiy), Benjamin Fleischmann (Dainius Kazlauskas), The Minister (Tõnu Kark).

Rothschild's Violin is a Biography, Music, Drama film.

Rothschild's Violin has an audience rating of 6.9 out of 10.