Rothschild's Violin (1996)
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.
- Released
- 1996-12-18
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Edgardo Cozarinsky
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 2 votes
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
- Kaljo Kiisk
- Epp Eespäev as Mme Shostakovich
- Kirill Shigaev as Maxim Shostakovich
- Katariina Unt
- Sulev Luik
- Mari Törőcsik as Marfa
- Székely B. Miklós as Bronza