Movie: Rothschild's Violin

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Sergei Makovetsky
Сергей Маковецкий

Shostakovich

Dainius Kazlauskas
Dainius Kazlauskas

Benjamin Fleischmann

Tõnu Kark
Tõnu Kark

The Minister

Tarmo Männard
Tarmo Männard

Moishe Vainberg

Tamara Solodovnikova
Tamara Solodovnikova

Aunt Nadezhda

Kaljo Kiisk
Kaljo Kiisk

Epp Eespäev
Epp Eespäev

Mme Shostakovich

Kirill Shigaev
Kirill Shigaev

Maxim Shostakovich

Katariina Unt
Katariina Unt

Sulev Luik
Sulev Luik

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    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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    1996-12-18

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    Pусский