
“The grand deception that became the performance of a lifetime.”
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Release Date: 11/4/2009
Runtime: 119 minutes
Languages: Russian, Italian, French
Director: Radu Mihăileanu
00Companies: Oï Oï Oï Productions, France 3 Cinéma, EuropaCorp, Castel Film, Panache Productions, BiM Distribuzione, RTBF
Countries: France, Belgium, Romania, Italy
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Aleksey Guskov
Andrey Simonovich Filipov

Mélanie Laurent
Anne-Marie Jacquet

Dmitri Nazarov
Aleksandr 'Sasha' Abramovich Grosman

François Berléand
Olivier Morne Duplessis

Miou-Miou
Guylène de La Rivière

Lionel Abelanski
Jean-Paul Carrère

Valeriy Barinov
Ivan Gavrilov

Sara Martins
Secretaire Duplessis

Laurent Bateau
Bertrand

Vlad Ivanov
Pyotr Tretyakin

Anna Kamenkova
Irina Filipova

Roger Dumas
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