Rothschild's Violin
movie
Released December 18, 1996
Genres:
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.
Cast
Sergey Makovetskiy
as
Shostakovich
Dainius Kazlauskas
as
Benjamin Fleischmann
Tõnu Kark
as
The Minister
Tarmo Männard
as
Moishe Vainberg
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Tamara Solodovnikova
as
Aunt Nadezhda
Kaljo Kiisk
Epp Eespäev
as
Mme Shostakovich
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Kirill Shigaev
as
Maxim Shostakovich
Katariina Unt
Sulev Luik
Mari Törőcsik
as
Marfa
Székely B. Miklós
as
Bronza
