Le concert

"After star conductor Andrei Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) refused to kick Jewish musicians out of the orchestra, the communist government demoted him to a cleaner. [...] One day, in the director's office, a fax from the Theatre du Châtelet falls into his hands: the Bolshoi is asked to give a guest performance at the famous Paris concert hall. Filipov quickly bags the fax and deletes the accompanying e-mail. His insane idea: to round up the original cast of the orchestra and perform in Paris himself without further ado." Florian Schulz, filmstarts.de "Comedy, drama, history, a dark family secret and great music - when a film combines all that, it turns a visit to the cinema into an experience.The Concert[...] is much more than a music film, as the title would suggest." Laura Bader, artechock.de Contributors and additional information: France, Italy, Romania, Belgium 2009. 122 min. color. 35mm. OV/d/f Director: Radu Mihăileanu Screenplay: Radu Mihăileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc, Matthew Robbins Cinematography: Laurent Daillland Editing: Ludo Troch Music: Armand Amar, Julien Baril With: Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitriy Nazarov Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.