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The Concert

The Concert

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 4, 2009

Runtime

1h 59m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

73%

Original Title

Le Concert

Production Companies

Wild 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

Director

Radu Mihăileanu

Description

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.