Rothschild's Violin (1996)
1h 41m
Running Time
December 18, 1996Release Date
Rothschild's Violin (1996)
1h 41m
Running Time
December 18, 1996Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Sergei Makovetsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dainius Kazlauskas
Benjamin Fleischmann
Tõnu Kark
The Minister
Tamara Solodovnikova
Aunt Nadezhda
Tarmo Männard
Moishe Vainberg
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Director
Epp Eespäev
Mme Shostakovich
Tamás Hutlassa
Producer
Serge Lalou
Producer
Kirill Shigaev
Maxim Shostakovich
Jacques Bouquin
Cinematographer
Martine Bouquin
Editor
Mari Törőcsik
Marfa
Miklós Székely B.
Bronza
Sándor Zsótér
Rothschild
Ferenc Jávori
Shakhes
Kirsi Mari Lepik
Fleischmann's Daughter
Margus Õunapuu
Assistant Art Director
Katariina Unt
Sulev Luik
Kaljo Kiisk
Details.
Release DateDecember 18, 1996
Original NameСкрипка Ротшильда
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 41m
Wiki.
The Rothschild Violet is a Finnish-Hungaro-French-Swiss film directed by Argentinian Edgardo Cozarinsky, released in 1996.The subject of the film is the unfinished eponymous opera by Benjamin Fleischmann, a student of composer Dimitri Chostakovich. "The Rothschild Violet is one of the few contemporary films to measure the history of this century, and must be counted as one of the very great works of cinema made since the post-war period. Produced in France and filmed in Russian by a filmmaker of Argentine origin, it also embodies a "cosmopoliticism" that the century in question has not ceased to victimize, which does not ruin anything." Jacques Mandelbaum, Le Monde, "Televisions" book, Sunday, 6 - Monday, December 7, 2009, p. 12.