Rothschild's Violin (1996)

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.

Genre : Drama

Actors : Sergey Makovetskiy, Dainius Kazlauskas, Tõnu Kark, Tarmo Männard, Tamara Solodovnikova, Kaljo Kiisk, Epp Eespäev, Kirill Shigaev

Release Date : 1996-12-18

Duration : 101 menit

Rating : ⭐ 7/10 (2 votes)