Le Concert

• Alexei Guskov: Andrey Semenovich Filipow
• Mélanie Laurent: Anne -Marie Jacquet, Lea
• Dmitri Nazarov: Alexander "Sasha " Abramovich Grosman
• Valery Barinow: Ivan Gavrilov
• Anna Kamenkova Irina Filipowa
• François Berléand: Olivier Morne Duplessis
• Miou Miou -: Guylène de La Rivière
• Lionel Abelanski: Jean -Paul Carrère
• Laurent Bateau: Bertrand
• Roger Dumas: Momo
• Guillaume Gallienne: Raymond Laudérac

The concert ( original title Le concert ) is a French film directed by Radu Mihăileanu from the year 2009.

Action

Andrei Filipov was once world famous conductor of the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre. His career was destroyed in 1980 when he refused to remove Jews from his orchestra. He is employed only as a cleaning man in his former theater.

One day he takes when cleaning the boss desk at night out of curiosity a newly inserted langtes fax in hand, with the director of the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet, Olivier Morne Duplessis, the Bolshoi Orchestra in the short term, as a substitute for a ausgefallenens American orchestra to a gig in Paris invites. Filipow decides supported by his his time cellist Sascha Grossmann, now an ambulance driver to bring together his old band again and to act in place of today's Bolshoi Orchestra. With an old ambulance, the two drive through Moscow and seek the then ousted with the conductor musicians together.

As a soloist he has wanted its contractual partners Anne -Marie Jacquet, whose CDs and reviews he has been collecting for a long time. Your manager and confidante, Guylène de La Rivière, the French says spontaneously, but mentioned in the call Tchaikovsky. This will alert Anne- Marie, his music has a special relationship. After evasions are Guylène to who she was on the phone, and Anne -Marie decides immediately to occur despite scheduling problems with the still famous Andrei Filipov in Paris.

Guylène de La Rivière - what is resolved only at the end of the film - private reasons for their dislike of the project: As a French music manager, who happened to be in Moscow was handed over to her Anne -Marie when she was six months old. Anne- Marie is unknowingly daughter of Jewish Violin soloist Leah, whom the KGB has banished her husband to Siberia, where they both died after a year. The child she gave shortly before her arrest, the orchestra colleagues Grossmann. Guylène has Anne -Marie - taken to France and you only told her parents, both academics had died shortly after her birth - at the request of Grossmann. Anne- Marie, now 29, would be glad to learn more about their parents, but has no evidence.

As a manager wins Filipow Ivan Gavrilov, who then personally canceled the concert in order Brezhnev. However Gavrilov has ulterior motives: he wants to keep at a meeting of the French Communist Party a speech. After initial difficulties, the orchestra members to organize their instruments and travel papers, the orchestra flies to Paris to op 35 to play on Filipows request, the Violin Concerto in D Major by Tchaikovsky: the same piece, suddenly at his performance 30 years ago Gavrilov on the stage has been released and Filipows baton has broken before all viewers. Since these unfinished Performance, for the many years of rehearsal, Filipow and, ultimately, his former orchestra musicians are obsessed with this piece.

The orchestra members are undisciplined and fall like a wild horde in the hotel one that Gavrilov has stipulated. For the first time in the West, they roam the city, trade with goods brought or celebrate, instead of coming to the agreed samples. Some have short appearances in Paris adopted to make money. The dinner of Filipow with his soloist ends abruptly because this wants to be a substitute for the former soloist Lea not cheaper. Filipow not says Anne -Marie that she is the daughter of Leah and her looks amazingly similar. The use of cellist Sascha Grossman to mediate between conductor and soloist, fails first. Guylène asks Anne -Marie, however, due to hints Gros Mans letter pardon for having not told her anything about her past, she asks, but to play at the concert, and wants to flee. Therefore, to play the concert yet Anne -Marie decides.

The random also arrived shortly before the concert conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre is imprisoned by Ivan Gavrilov before the event in a side room of the concert hall and guarded. This Gavrilov waived his speech at the same event, taking place of the French Communist Party, for which he has actually decided to make the trip.

Thus, the sold-out concert begins under very bad sign. The trumpeter appear only when the conductor raises his baton. The unprepared orchestra plays the opening bars as a untalentiertes school orchestra. However, after the start of the solo passages Anne- Marie's run conductor and musician on top form. Anne -Marie Jacquet and Andrei Filipov go extremely sensitive one another. Even the orchestra members and Guylène that now but followed the concert in the last row are stirred. The audience is also very touched to some extent; in any case it is excited and thanked with a standing ovation. Anne -Marie burst into tears and embraced by Andrej on stage.

The shortened to half its original length in the film performance of the Violin Concerto is one According to experts, the most virtuosic displays a concert in the history of film. She was a reason for the award the film with a César for best film music.

The concert is interrupted in the film of the story about the true origin Filipows Anne- Marie and the fate of their parents as well as various scenes from the ( real or imagined ) future: Filipow, his wife, and Anne -Marie talking about the past, the orchestra Filipows traveling and on a world map depicted the journey of the orchestra through various world cities and newspapers reporting excited about the concerts.

Awards

• Best Original Score
• Best Sound

• Nomination for Best Screenplay

• Nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film

Reception

" A moving comedy with much Jewish humor. ... It's about the relationship of the individual to the community and the concert throws a reflection on today's society in which the maximum freedom of the individual seems to have been reached and everyone longs back to community. ... A profound film about humanity, love and responsibility, in which the music is the all- connecting power. "

" Skillfully blended Radu Mihaileanu burlesque comedy and profound character drama into an entertaining cinematic experience. In " The Concert" meet contemporary historical curiosities to formal sophistication, plays around the music, the story and coagulates the narrative finally returned to the music. Though the premise may not be so outlandish, the fascination of the unusual trip at the latest in the brilliant finale one can hardly escape. "