Rothschild's Violin (1996)
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
Shostakovich
Dainius Kazlauskas
Benjamin Fleischmann
Tõnu Kark
The Minister
Tarmo Männard
Moishe Vainberg
Kaljo Kiisk
Epp Eespäev
Mme Shostakovich
Katariina Unt
Sulev Luik
Mari Törőcsik
Marfa
Székely B. Miklós
Bronza
Sándor Zsótér
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