Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music
Release Year: 2009
Country: France, Italy, Romania, Belgium, Russia
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Languages: French, Russian
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
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Writing by: Radu Mihaileanu – (scenario)
Matthew Robbins – (collaboration) and
Alain-Michel Blanc – (collaboration)
Héctor Cabello Reyes – (original story) &
Thierry Degrandi – (original story)

Produced by: Alain Attal – producer
Valerio De Paolis – co-producer
André Logie – co-producer
Bogdan Moncea – line producer
Vlad Paunescu – co-producer

Cast: Aleksei Guskov – Andreï Filipov
Dmitri Nazarov – Sacha Grossman
Mélanie Laurent – Anne-Marie Jacquet
François Berléand – Olivier Morne Duplessis
Miou-Miou – Guylène de La Rivière (as Miou Miou)
Valeriy Barinov – Ivan Gavrilov
Anna Kamenkova – Irina Filipovna (as Anna Kamenkova Pavlova)
Lionel Abelanski – Jean-Paul Carrère
Aleksandr Komissarov – Victor Vikitch
Ramzy Bedia – Owner of the 'Trou Normand'

Music: Armand Amar
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Plot Outline: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians…
Plot: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.

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