
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
The Minister

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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