Rothschild's Violin

1996Directed by Edgardo Cozarinsky

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Released: December 18, 1996
Runtime: 1h 41m

About Rothschild's Violin

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Writer: Edgardo Cozarinsky
Original title: Скрипка Ротшильда

Principal cast

In billing order

Sergey MakovetskiyShostakovich
Dainius KazlauskasBenjamin Fleischmann
Tõnu KarkThe Minister
Tarmo MännardMoishe Vainberg
Tamara SolodovnikovaAunt Nadezhda
Kaljo Kiisk

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