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WINNER BEST MUSIC -- CESAR AWARDS
BEST EUROPEAN FILM -- DONATELLO AWARDS
NOMINEE FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM -- GOLDEN GLOBES
Passover has always been a celebration of freedom and redemption for Jews the world over, but also a time to focus on the needs of the community’s most vulnerable. In celebration of Passover and all it stands for, we hope you will join us in our continued efforts to support the Ukrainian victims and refugees caught in this tragic ongoing war, with 100% of all funds collected going to support those impacted by the crisis through GMJF's Ukraine Emergency Fund.
Acclaimed Romanian-born Franco-Israeli director Radu Mihaileanu's Le Concert echoes the fable-like brilliance of his Train of Life and Mel Brooks' The Producers, as he once again pokes critical yet always loving fun at what lies behind power and ambition. Andrei Filipov (Alexei Guskov) is a former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, who was stripped of his position in 1980 for refusing to fire his Jewish musicians, as part of Brezhnev’s anti-Semitic decrees. Reduced to toiling as a janitor in the concert hall in which he was fired, the miserable Andrei still dreams of restoration, while his wife runs a business procuring extras for the grotesquely lavish weddings and funerals of Russian tycoons. When Andrei intercepts a fax from the Theatre du Chatelet inviting the Bolshoi Orchestra to Paris, he comes up with a plan to redeem his dream. He’ll bring together his old musicians (now working rag-tag jobs) and they’ll pretend to be the famed orchestra to play Tchaikovsky’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.” His only demand is that a celebrated French violinist (the radiant Melanie Laurent) accompany them, for mysteriously personal reasons. Le Concert deftly builds up to an emotional ending, a beautiful final sequence that evokes tears and laughter.
Please consider donating when "Unlocking" the film or by clicking here. No one knows how long the war in Ukraine will last, but we do know the lasting impact on the Jewish community and others will require continued assistance.
WINNER BEST MUSIC -- CESAR AWARDS
BEST EUROPEAN FILM -- DONATELLO AWARDS
NOMINEE FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM -- GOLDEN GLOBES
Passover has always been a celebration of freedom and redemption for Jews the world over, but also a time to focus on the needs of the community’s most vulnerable. In celebration of Passover and all it stands for, we hope you will join us in our continued efforts to support the Ukrainian victims and refugees caught in this tragic ongoing war, with 100% of all funds collected going to support those impacted by the crisis through GMJF's Ukraine Emergency Fund.
Acclaimed Romanian-born Franco-Israeli director Radu Mihaileanu's Le Concert echoes the fable-like brilliance of his Train of Life and Mel Brooks' The Producers, as he once again pokes critical yet always loving fun at what lies behind power and ambition. Andrei Filipov (Alexei Guskov) is a former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, who was stripped of his position in 1980 for refusing to fire his Jewish musicians, as part of Brezhnev’s anti-Semitic decrees. Reduced to toiling as a janitor in the concert hall in which he was fired, the miserable Andrei still dreams of restoration, while his wife runs a business procuring extras for the grotesquely lavish weddings and funerals of Russian tycoons. When Andrei intercepts a fax from the Theatre du Chatelet inviting the Bolshoi Orchestra to Paris, he comes up with a plan to redeem his dream. He’ll bring together his old musicians (now working rag-tag jobs) and they’ll pretend to be the famed orchestra to play Tchaikovsky’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.” His only demand is that a celebrated French violinist (the radiant Melanie Laurent) accompany them, for mysteriously personal reasons. Le Concert deftly builds up to an emotional ending, a beautiful final sequence that evokes tears and laughter.