''Violin'' (russian: Скрипка) is the final novel of the film trilogy
"Witnesses". The film opens at the beginning of the 20th century in a violin shop, where an instrument was created as a present for a Jewish boy. Later that violin became a witness to the tragic events that took place during the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
. When the instrument turned a hundred years old, its journey ended a concert at the
Wailing Wall
The Western Wall ( he, הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, HaKotel HaMa'aravi, the western wall, often shortened to the Kotel or Kosel), known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ...
.
Plot
Cast
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Lenn Kudrjawizki
Lenn Kudrjawizki (born 10 October 1975) is a German actor and musician.
Biography
Lenn Kudrjawizki came with his parents at the age of two months from Leningrad to East Berlin, where his father had a job as a scientist and his mother worked a ...
as Leonid Shtiller
*
Vladimir Koshevoi as Leo Shtiller
*
Mikhail Gorevoy
Mikhail Vitalievich Gorevoy (russian: Михаи́л Вита́льевич Горево́й; born 19 May 1965) is a Russian actor, occasionally credited as Michael Gor in English language productions, best known internationally for playing Vlad ...
as Richard
*
Vyacheslav Chepurchenko as Kurt
* Maria King as Rachel
*
Maria Zykova
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
* 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, d ...
as Ada
*
Alex A. Petruhin as Otto
* Anzhelika Kashirina as Katya
* Alim Kandur as Shlomo
* Vyacheslav Ganenko as Moshe
Production
Filmmakers from Russia, Israel, the United States, Belarus and the Czech Republic participated in the production. The filming took place in Moscow, New-York, Prague, Brest, Minsk and ended in Jerusalem with accordance of the novel's plot.
The film was created with the financial support of the
Ministry for Culture of Russia, as well as private philanthropists.
Confession
Film premiered as part of the competition program of the 39th
Moscow International Film Festival
The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...
in June 2017. It is also longlisted for the
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under various names, since 1957.
From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One- ...
.
Accolades
Awards
* 39th
Moscow International Film Festival
The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...
, Competition program
* The film is longlisted for the
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under various names, since 1957.
From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One- ...
, 2017
* The film was nominated for the
Golden Eagle Award of
for Best Short Film, 2017
* Sochi International Film Awards (Russia), the award of the name of
Vera Glagoleva
Vera Vitalievna Glagoleva (russian: Вера Витальевна Глаголева; 31 January 1956 – 16 August 2017) was a Soviet and Russian actress and film director.
Glagoleva was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1956. ...
; the special award of the Short Film Contest "For the Preservation of Historical Memory"
Official partners
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Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR; russian: Федерация Еврейских Общин России, ) is a Russian religious organization that unifies communities of Orthodox Judaism, mostly of Chabad Hassidic movement. I ...
*
Russian Jewish Congress
The Russian Jewish Congress is a non-profit charitable fund and Russian Jewish organization. It was established in 1996 by a group of Jewish businessmen, workers and religious figures with the goal of reviving Jewish life in Russia.
It unites som ...
* Chabad Odessa
See also
*
''Witnesses'' (2018 film)
*
''Shoes'' (2012 film)
*
''Brutus'' (2016 film)
References
External links
*
* {{IMDb title, 6202570, Violin
Holocaust films
2017 films
2017 war drama films
Russian epic films
2010s Russian-language films
War epic films
Epic films based on actual events
Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
Russian war drama films
2017 drama films
Russian World War II films