Rothschild's Violin(Скрипка Ротшильда)

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France, Finland, Switzerland · 1996
1h 41m
Director Edgardo Cozarinsky
Starring Sergei Makovetsky, Dainius Kazlauskas, Tõnu Kark, Tarmo Männard
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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.

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