The Concert
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Radu Mihaileanu
Valery Barinov
Aleksey Guskov
Francois Berleand
Lionel Abelanski
Mélanie Laurent
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Andreï 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 Andreï's orchestra to him soon, but he's mocking him, humiliating him sadistically. For him, Andreï's a has-been, and he's doing him a big favor by keeping him on as a cleaner. Then Andreï finds a fax inviting the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks' time, as a last minute replacement for the indisposed Los Angeles Philharmonic. Andreï conceives of a crazy notion: he'll round up his old musician buddies, a motley bunch now scraping a living in Moscow as cab drivers, removal men, flea market traders, suppliers of porno film sound effects. They'll go to Paris as the Bolshoi. They'll defy destiny and take their revenge! Will they make it?
Director
Radu Mihaileanu
Cast
Valery Barinov
Aleksey Guskov
Francois Berleand
Lionel Abelanski
Mélanie Laurent
Aleksandr Komissarov
Miou-miou
Dmitry Nazarov
Crew
Gigi Akoka
Armand Amar
Alain Attal
Selim Azzazi
Alain-michel Blanc
Hector Cabello Reyes
Laurent Dailland
Thierry Degrandi
Pierre Excoffier
Herve Jakubowicz
Radu Mihaileanu
Cristian Niculescu
Viorica Petrovici
Matthew Robbins
Bruno Tarriere
Ludo Troch
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
The Country of France
Released in United States Summer July 30, 2010
Released in United States October 2009
Released in United States 2010
Shown at Rome International Film Festival (Official Selection Out of Competition - Preview) October 15-23, 2009.
Released in United States Summer July 30, 2010 (New York City.)
Released in United States October 2009 (Shown at Rome International Film Festival (Official Selection Out of Competition - Preview) October 15-23, 2009.)
Released in United States 2010 (Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 20-June 13, 2010.)
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 20-June 13, 2010.
