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THE CONCERT / Koncert

Le Concert

In Competition > Feature films

CÉSAR 2009.  - Best Music Written for Film, Best sound

Andrei Filipov was a prodigy - the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today, aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner.

During the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish players.Then Andrei finds a fax. An invitation for the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks’ time, as a last minute replacement. Andrei conceives of a crazy notion: he’ll round up his old musician buddies, a motley bunch now scraping a living in Moscow as cab drivers, flea market traders, suppliers of porno film sound effects… They’ll go to Paris as the Bolshoi. Will they make it?

ABOUT DIRECTOR

Radu Mihaileanu was born in Bucharest, in 1958, into a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family.

In 1980, Radu Mihaileana fled the country, then under the control of the dictator Ceaucescu. He came to Paris where he embarked on a career as assistant director to Marco Ferreri. Finishing off with the writing and production of “Betrayal” in 1993. In 1998, “Train of Life”, his second full-length feature-film, won him international renown.

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