Rothschild's Violin

Rothschild's Violin

7.0

Dec 18 1996

2h 41m

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.

Sergei Makovetsky

Sergei Makovetsky

Shostakovich

Dainius Kazlauskas

Dainius Kazlauskas

Benjamin Fleischmann

Tõnu Kark

Tõnu Kark

The Minister

Tarmo Männard

Tarmo Männard

Moishe Vainberg