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Rothschild's Violin (1996)
Directed by Edgardo Cozarinsky
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.
Length 101 minutes
Actors
Сергей Маковецкий | Dainius Kazlauskas | Tõnu Kark | Tarmo Männard | Tamara Solodovnikova | Kaljo Kiisk | Epp Eespäev | Kirill Shigaev | Katariina Lauk | Sulev Luik | Törőcsik Mari | Miklós Székely B. | Sándor Zsótér | Ferenc Jávori | Kirsi Mari Lepik