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.
Directed by Edgardo Cozarinsky
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Cast
Sergey Makovetskiy
Shostakovich
Dainius Kazlauskas
Benjamin Fleischmann
Tõnu Kark
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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
Sándor Zsótér
Rothschild
Ferenc Jávori
Shakhes
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