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Release date: 12/18/1996 
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Original language: RU 
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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.
Alternative titles
Le violon de Rothschild
El violín de Rothschild
O Violino de Rothschild
