Le Concert
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| Directed by | Radu Mihăileanu |
| Produced by | Alain Attal |
| Written by | Radu Mihăileanu Héctor Cabello Reyes Thierry Degrandi Matthew Robbins Alain-Michel Blanc |
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Aleksei Guskov Mélanie Laurent François Berléand Miou-Miou Lionel Abelanski |
| Music by |
Armand Amar Tchaikovsky |
| Cinematography | Laurent Dailland |
| Edited by | Ludo Troch |
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| Distributed by | EuropaCorp. Distribution (France) |
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119 minutes |
| Country | France Belgium Italy Romania Russia |
| Language | French Russian |
| Budget | € 13.2 million |
| Box office | € 54.4 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Armand Amar | |
| Released | 2 November 2009 |
| Genre | Classical |
| Label | Columbia Records |
Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy-drama film by Radu Mihăileanu, starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010. It was also nominated for two Magritte Awards in the category of Best Film in Coproduction and Best Editing for Ludo Troch in 2011, and Best Foreign Film at the 68th Golden Globe Awards.
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra, known as "The Maestro," Andrey Simonovich Filipov, had had his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for defending Jewish musicians and is reduced to working as a mere janitor in the theatre where he once conducted, becoming an alcoholic in the process.
While cleaning his boss's office, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris to replace a concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra that was canceled at the last minute. Filipov comes up with a plan to reunite his old orchestra, composed of old Jewish and Gypsy musicians - who also have been reduced to making a living as movers or taxi drivers - to perform in Paris and complete a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which was interrupted 30 years earlier by former KGB Agent Ivan Gavrilov, who is enrolled by Filipov in his scheme as the orchestra's manager and is actively and efficiently supporting Filipov's plan, much to the dismay of Aleksandr 'Sasha' Abramovich Grossman (the orchestra's main cellist), because he suspects that Gavrilov has his own agenda for the Paris trip.
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