Le concert

"The grand deception that became the performance of a lifetime."

Nov 4 2009 PG-13 1h 59m
Comedy, Drama, Music

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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Plot

Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.

Written by

Radu Mihaileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc, Matthew Robbins

Directed by

Radu Mihaileanu

Cast

Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitriy Nazarov

Crew

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Production Countries

Belgium, Italy, Romania, France

Production Companies

Région Ile-de-France, Les Productions du Trésor, France 3 Cinéma, EuropaCorp, Castel Film, Panache Productions, BIM Distribuzione, CinéCinéma, France 3, Eurimages, Belgacom TV, Tax Shelter ING Invest de Tax Shelter Productions, Fonds d'Action de la Sacem, Le, Canal+, RTBF, Oï Oï Oï Productions, Wild Bunch

Languages

Italiano, Français

Awards

9 wins & 15 nominations

Trailers
The Concert - trailer
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# of Votes
18,893
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
60
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