在这部罗斯柴尔德的小提琴传记/音乐片中,1938年，肖斯塔科维奇建议学生弗莱施曼（犹太人）以契诃夫的《罗斯柴尔德的小提琴》为蓝本，写作一部独幕歌剧。1941年，苏德战争爆发，弗莱施曼志愿从军，战死于列宁格勒外围防御阵地。1944，肖斯塔科维奇续完了学生遗作。1996年，法国拍摄的电影《罗斯柴尔德小提琴》取材于这段历史，并全部囊括这部长达四十多分钟的歌剧。俄国指挥大师罗日杰斯特文斯基为影片录制了歌剧录音。该版电影原声唱片见：www.douban.com/subject/2042793/
1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera, during Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". Jewish motifs enter Shostakovich's own work. The film includes a filmed version of the opera itself.
