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Rothschild's Violin

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.

RATING

7.00

DIRECTOR

Edgardo Cozarinsky

COUNTRIES

Hungary

France

Finland

Switzerland

RELEASE DATE

1996

TIME