Rothschild's Violin

Movie

Rothschild's Violin

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.

Date: 12/18/1996

Rating: 7.0

Cast: Sergei Makovetsky, Dainius Kazlauskas, Tõnu Kark, Tarmo Männard, Tamara Solodovnikova, Kaljo Kiisk, Epp Eespäev, Kirill Shigaev, Katariina Unt, Sulev Luik, Mari Törőcsik, Miklós Székely B., Sándor Zsótér, Ferenc Jávori, Kirsi Mari Lepik

Sergei Makovetsky