CONCERT, LE
Category: Feature Film
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Romania
Year: 2009
Length: 120'
Production Status: completed
Participating Shooting Stars:
Mélanie Laurent
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CONCERT, THE
Andrei Filipov was a prodigy - the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today, aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner.
During the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish players, - 'Zionists and enemies of the People' - including his best friend Sacha Grossman. Andreï sank into booze and depression.
The Director of the Bolshoi, an old apparatchik, has been promising forever to return Andrei's orchestra to him "soon", but he's mocking him, humiliating him sadistically. For him, Andrei's a has-been, and he's doing him a big favour by keeping him on as a cleaner.
