Rothschild's Violin

Rothschild's Violin — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 18, 1996
• Runtime
• 101 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Edgardo Cozarinsky

Rothschild's Violin — Cast

Sergey Makovetskiy Shostakovich Dainius Kazlauskas Benjamin Fleischmann Tõnu Kark The Minister Tarmo Männard Moishe Vainberg

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Tamara Solodovnikova Aunt Nadezhda Kaljo Kiisk Epp Eespäev Mme Shostakovich

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Kirill Shigaev Maxim Shostakovich