Rothschild's Violin

Name: Rothschild's Violin
Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996-12-18
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Sergey Makovetskiy, Dainius Kazlauskas, Tõnu Kark, Tarmo Männard, Tamara Solodovnikova

1996

1h 41m

Drama

Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky

Writer: Edgardo Cozarinsky

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.