''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

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

, Competition program * The film is longlisted for the

, 2017 * The film was nominated for the Golden Eagle Award of

National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia The National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia is the official film academy of Russia. Every year it awards the Golden Eagle Award (Russia), Golden Eagle Award. References

Organizations established in 2002 Golden Eagle ...

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

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

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