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Rostropovich, one of the greatest Russian cellists of the 20th century, who died in 2007, was forced to flee his country in 1972 for defending writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who had been expelled from the USSR for having published The Gulag Archipelago. The extraordinary story of his life is revealed in this film through a collection of rare archives and testimonies from his family and friends, assembled by Bruno Monsaingeon.
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Original Title:
Rostropovich: l’archet indomptable -
Country:
France, Germany, Russia, United States of America -
Year:
2018 - 80' Subtitles: English
Director
Bruno Monsaingeon
Bruno Monsaingeon is a French musician, filmmaker and writer who has,
aside from his career as a violinist, dedicated the last thirty years of his life filming the profiles and performances of some of the biggest musicians of our time: Yehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oïstrakh, Piotr Anderszewski and Grigory Sokolov, amongst many others. Monsaingeon is also the author of the book Mademoiselle, a report comprising a series of interviews with Nadia Boulanger, composer, maestro and teacher of many of the most important composers and musicians of the 20th Century.
aside from his career as a violinist, dedicated the last thirty years of his life filming the profiles and performances of some of the biggest musicians of our time: Yehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oïstrakh, Piotr Anderszewski and Grigory Sokolov, amongst many others. Monsaingeon is also the author of the book Mademoiselle, a report comprising a series of interviews with Nadia Boulanger, composer, maestro and teacher of many of the most important composers and musicians of the 20th Century.
