Synopsis & Context
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.
Title Dossier
- Original Title
- Скрипка Ротшильда
- Release
- December 18, 1996
- Screen Time
- 1h 41min
- Rating
- N/A
- Direction
- Edgardo Cozarinsky
- Original Language
- Russian
- Country of Origin
- Hungary
- Production Status
- Released
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