Rothschild's Violin

Rothschild's Violin

1996
1h 41m
7.0

7.0/10

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Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Countries
Hungary France Finland Switzerland
Spoken Languages
Russian

Quick Facts

Original Title Скрипка Ротшильда
Release Date December 18, 1996
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0118084

Cast

Sergey Makovetskiy
Sergey Makovetskiy

Shostakovich

Dainius Kazlauskas
Dainius Kazlauskas

Benjamin Fleischmann

Tõnu Kark
Tõnu Kark

The Minister

Tarmo Männard
Tarmo Männard

Moishe Vainberg

Tamara Solodovnikova
Tamara Solodovnikova

Aunt Nadezhda

Kaljo Kiisk
Kaljo Kiisk

Epp Eespäev
Epp Eespäev

Mme Shostakovich

Kirill Shigaev
Kirill Shigaev

Maxim Shostakovich

Katariina Unt
Katariina Unt

Sulev Luik
Sulev Luik

Mari Törőcsik
Mari Törőcsik

Marfa

Székely B. Miklós
Székely B. Miklós

Bronza

Key Crew

Edgardo Cozarinsky
Director
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Writer

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