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Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes61%
Metacritic60/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
536 audience votes
Key crew
- Radu MihăileanuDirector
- Radu MihăileanuScreenplay
- Alain-Michel BlancScreenplay
- Matthew RobbinsScreenplay
- Héctor Cabello ReyesScreenplay
- Armand AmarOriginal Music Composer
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
