Released:
1996-12-18

Overview:
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.

Director:
Edgardo Cozarinsky

Runtime:
1h 41min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Sergey Makovetskiy
  as
  Shostakovich
• 
  Dainius Kazlauskas
  as
  Benjamin Fleischmann
• 
  Tõnu Kark
  as
  The Minister
• 
  Tarmo Männard
  as
  Moishe Vainberg
• 
  Tamara Solodovnikova
  as
  Aunt Nadezhda