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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.
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Hungary
asShostakovich
asBenjamin Fleischmann
asThe Minister
asMoishe Vainberg
asAunt Nadezhda
Cast
asMme Shostakovich
asMaxim Shostakovich
asMarfa
asBronza
asRothschild
asShakhes
asFleischmann's Daughter
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