Released
The Concert
November 4 2009 (about 15 years ago)Rating
72
Based on
497 reviews
The grand deception that became the performance of a lifetime.
- Director: Radu Mihăileanu
- Writers: Radu Mihăileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc, Matthew Robbins, Héctor Cabello Reyes
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Runtime: 1 h 59 m
- Countries: Belgium, Italy, Romania, France
- Companies: Wild Bunch, Oï Oï Oï Productions, Les Productions du Trésor, France 3 Cinéma, EuropaCorp, Castel Film, Panache Productions, BIM Distribuzione, CinéCinéma, France 3, Eurimages, La Région Île-de-France, Belgacom TV, Tax Shelter ING Invest de Tax Shelter Productions, Fonds d'Action de la Sacem, Le, Canal+, RTBF
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.
