The Concert
Le concert
2009, Film, 119 min, Comedy, Drama, Music, French, France, MoviePedia score 72
The grand deception that became the performance of a lifetime.
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.
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Cast
- Aleksei Guskov as Andrey Simonovich Filipov
- Mélanie Laurent as Lea
- Dmitriy Nazarov as Aleksandr 'Sasha' Abramovich Grosman
- François Berléand as Olivier Morne Duplessis
- Miou-Miou as Guylène de La Rivière
- Valeriy Barinov as Ivan Gavrilov
- Lionel Abelanski as Jean-Paul Carrère
- Laurent Bateau as Bertrand
- Vlad Ivanov as Pyotr Tretyakin
- Anna Kamenkova as Irina Filipova
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