

The Concert
2009-11-04 · 119 min · ★ 7.2
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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- Directors
- Radu Mihăileanu
- Production companies
- Oï Oï Oï Productions, France 3 Cinéma, EuropaCorp, Castel Film, Panache Productions, BiM Distribuzione, RTBF
- Countries
- France, Belgium, Romania, Italy
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Aleksey GuskovAndrey Simonovich Filipov
Mélanie LaurentAnne-Marie Jacquet
Dmitri NazarovAleksandr 'Sasha' Abramovich Grosman
François BerléandOlivier Morne Duplessis
Miou-MiouGuylène de La Rivière
Lionel AbelanskiJean-Paul Carrère
Valeriy BarinovIvan Gavrilov
Sara MartinsSecretaire Duplessis
Laurent BateauBertrand
Vlad IvanovPyotr Tretyakin
Anna KamenkovaIrina Filipova
Roger DumasMomo
Anghel GheorgheVassili
Aleksandr KomissarovViktor Vikich
Vitalie BichirMoïse
Guillaume GallienneLaudeyrac
Valentin TeodosiuLeonid Vinitchenko
Ion SapdaruKostin Genkine
Maria DinulescuFemme Genkine
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