The Concert
UNDERWRITTEN BY RICHARD NAMM AND JOHN MORAN
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Andrei Filipov was a world-famous conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, but his defiant refusal to fire Jewish musicians during Brezhnev's anti-Semitic regime cost him his career. Now a custodian for the concert hall, he intercepts a fax inviting the Bolshoi Orchestra to perform a concert in Paris in just two weeks. Seeing an opportunity to again stage and conduct his favorite Tchaikovsky production, he enlists his cellist friend and a former party apparatchik to get the band back together and perform instead. This comedy blends farce and political satire and a mystery concerning the identity of a French violin virtuoso who agrees to be the soloist. FOLLOWING THE FILM On Saturday, Nov. 5
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2011 Golden Globe |