Rothschild's Violin (Скрипка Ротшильда) 28 years old

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.

Credits

Rothschild's Violin Cast

Name	Character
Sergei Makovetsky He was 38, now 66 years old	as Shostakovich

Rothschild's Violin Crew

Name	Department
Edgardo Cozarinsky as Director. He was 57 (now 85) years old	Directing
Edgardo Cozarinsky as Writer. He was 57 (now 85) years old	Writing
Martine Bouquin as Editor.	Editing