Le violon de Rothschild

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 ...

Director

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Writer

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Released

18 Dec 1996

Country

France, Finland, Switzerland, Hungary