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. When the instrument turned a hundred years old, its journey ended a concert at the Wailing Wall.
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Cast
Lenn Kudrjawizki as Leonid Shtiller
Vladimir Koshevoi as Leo Shtiller
Mikhail Gorevoy as Richard
Vyacheslav Chepurchenko as Kurt
Maria King as Rachel
Maria Zykova 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 in June 2017. It is also longlisted for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.
Accolades
Awards
39th Moscow International Film Festival, Competition program
The film is longlisted for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film, 2017
The film was nominated for the Golden Eagle Award of National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia for Best Short Film, 2017
Sochi International Film Awards (Russia), the award of the name of Vera Glagoleva; the special award of the Short Film Contest "For the Preservation of Historical Memory"
Official partners
Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia
Russian Jewish Congress
Chabad Odessa