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.
Genres:
Sergey Makovetskiy as Shostakovich
Dainius Kazlauskas as Benjamin Fleischmann
Tõnu Kark as The Minister
Tarmo Männard as Moishe Vainberg
Tamara Solodovnikova as Aunt Nadezhda
Kaljo Kiisk as
Epp Eespäev as Mme Shostakovich
Kirill Shigaev as Maxim Shostakovich
Katariina Unt as
Sulev Luik as
Mari Törőcsik as Marfa
Székely B. Miklós as Bronza
Sándor Zsótér as Rothschild
Ferenc Jávori as Shakhes
Kirsi Mari Lepik as Fleischmann's Daughter
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