Rothschild's Violin (1996)
Release Date
18 Dec, 1996
Runtime
01:41: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
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.
Original Title
Скрипка Ротшильда
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