Trans Allegories in Film: 'Your Name' (2016)
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The Concert (2010)
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.
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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.
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Genre:Drama, Comedy
Written By:Radu Mihăileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc, Matthew Robbins, Héctor Cabello Reyes
In Theaters:7/30/2010
Box Office:
Runtime:119 minutes
Studio:Oï Oï Oï Productions, France 3 Cinéma, EuropaCorp, Castel Film, Panache Productions, BiM Distribuzione, RTBF
Cast
Radu Mihăileanu
Director
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
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