Summary 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. The film includes a filmed version of the opera itself. View more details
Directed : Edgardo Cozarinsky
Written : Edgardo Cozarinsky
Stars : Sergey Makovetskiy Tõnu Kark Dainius Kazlauskas Tarmo Männard
Genres : Biography Music
Release date : Dec 17, 1996
Countries of origin : Finland France Switzerland Hungary
Language : Russian
Filming locations : Hungary
Production companies : CAB Productions France Télécom Hansamedia
Summary 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. The film includes a filmed version of the opera itself. View more details
Genres : Biography Music
Release date : Dec 17, 1996
Countries of origin : Finland France Switzerland Hungary
Language : Russian
Filming locations : Hungary
Production companies : CAB Productions France Télécom Hansamedia