Lionel Abelanski, Miou-Miou, Mélanie Laurent, François Berléand, Laurent Bateau, Vlad Ivanov, Aleksey Guskov, Sara Martins, Dmitri Nazarov, Valeriy Barinov
Director
Radu Mihăileanu
Year
2009
Category
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Language
German, French
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.