The Concert

Nov 4, 2009

1h 59m

★ 7.2

The grand deception that became the performance of a lifetime.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Oï Oï Oï Productions

France 3 Cinéma

EuropaCorp

Castel Film

Panache Productions

BiM Distribuzione

RTBF

The Concert Trailers

Cast

Andrey Simonovich Filipov

Aleksey Guskov

Anne-Marie Jacquet

Mélanie Laurent

Aleksandr 'Sasha' Abramovich Grosman

Dmitri Nazarov

Olivier Morne Duplessis

François Berléand

Guylène de La Rivière

Miou-Miou

Jean-Paul Carrère

Lionel Abelanski

Ivan Gavrilov

Valeriy Barinov

Secretaire Duplessis

Sara Martins

Bertrand

Laurent Bateau

Pyotr Tretyakin

Vlad Ivanov

Irina Filipova

Anna Kamenkova

Momo

Roger Dumas

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