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Rothschild's Violin (1996)

Rothschild's Violin (1996)

Drama
Release Date: 1996, December 18
Directors: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Countries: Switzerland, Finland, France, Hungary
Cast: Tõnu Kark, Sergey Makovetskiy, Sándor Zsótér, Epp Eespäev, Székely B. Miklós, Dainius Kazlauskas, Tarmo Männard, Mari Törőcsik, Tamara Solodovnikova, Kirill Shigaev, Ferenc Jávori, Kirsi Mari Lepik

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.