Rothschild's Violin
movie
View on VideBits →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 & crew
Dainius Kazlauskas · Epp Eespäev · Kaljo Kiisk · Katariina Unt · Kirill Shigaev · Sergey Makovetskiy · Sulev Luik · Tamara Solodovnikova · Tarmo Männard · Tõnu Kark · Edgardo Cozarinsky