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Certificate 15

Cast Aleksei Guskov Mélanie Laurent Dmitri Nazarov

Directors Radu Mihaileanu

Screenwriters Matthew Robbins Alain-Michel Blanc

Running Time 122 minutes

Le Concert
Think The Blues Brothers gone classical. In Russia

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Plot
Former Bolshoi conductor Andrëi Filipov (Guskov), disgraced for supporting Jewish musicians under Brezhnev’s regime in the ’80s, is now a lowly janitor at the Bolshoi. Intercepting a fax inviting the Bolshoi to perform at the Châtelet Theatre, he resolves to get his old orchestra back together and take one last chance to re-enter the big time.

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