Rothschild's Violin

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Sergey MakovetskiyShostakovich

Dainius KazlauskasBenjamin Fleischmann

Tõnu KarkThe Minister

Tarmo MännardMoishe Vainberg

Tamara Solodovnikova

Tamara SolodovnikovaAunt Nadezhda

Kaljo KiiskCast

Epp EespäevMme Shostakovich

Kirill Shigaev

Kirill ShigaevMaxim Shostakovich

Katariina UntCast

Sulev LuikCast

Mari TörőcsikMarfa

Székely B. MiklósBronza