The janitor at the Bolshoi, demoted from maestro for political motives under Brezhnev, intercepts a faxed invitation from the Châtelet in Paris, and conspires to round up sixty fellow out-of-work musicians for an imposter orchestra. Low comedy en route to high culture, a climax of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, mixed throughout with warmed-over Soviet politics and soap-operatic personal drama. None of it is the teensiest bit credible. With Aleksei Guskov, Dmitri Nazarov, Mélanie Laurent, and Miou-Miou; directed by Radu Mihaileanu. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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