Overview
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.
DirectorRadu Mihăileanu
ProducersAlain Attal, Radu Mihăileanu, Michael Blakey
ScreenplayRadu Mihăileanu, Matthew Robbins, Alain-Michel Blanc, Héctor Cabello Reyes
Top Casts
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
Details
LanguageRussian, French, Italian
Production companiesWild Bunch, Oï Oï Oï Productions, Les Productions du Trésor, France 3 Cinéma, EuropaCorp, Castel Film, Panache Productions, BIM Distribuzione, CinéCinéma, France 3, Eurimages, La Région Île-de-France, Belgacom TV, Tax Shelter ING Invest de Tax Shelter Productions, Fonds d'Action de la Sacem, Le, Canal+, RTBF
TaglineThe grand deception that became the performance of a lifetime.
