Rothschilds Violin

Movie
Audience Score
70
Rothschilds Violin
NR 1 hr 41 min
1938 Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story Rothschilds violin Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad Shostakovich completes the orchestration but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera during Stalins campaign against rootless cosmopolitans Jewish motifs enter Shostakovichs own work