Rothschild's Violin (1996)
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.
Rothschild's ViolinDrama
Cast
- Sergey Makovetskiy — Shostakovich
- Dainius Kazlauskas — Benjamin Fleischmann
- Tõnu Kark — The Minister
- Tarmo Männard — Moishe Vainberg
- Tamara Solodovnikova — Aunt Nadezhda
- Kaljo Kiisk
- Epp Eespäev — Mme Shostakovich
- Kirill Shigaev — Maxim Shostakovich
- Katariina Unt
- Sulev Luik
- Mari Törőcsik — Marfa
- Székely B. Miklós — Bronza
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