Le Concert
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Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu
starring Aleksei Guskov
, Mélanie Laurent
and Miou-Miou
. It has won the Best Original Score
and Best Sound
awards at César Awards 2010
.
orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev
for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet
. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris
and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
.
with one track written by Radu Mihăileanu ("Le Trou Normand").
The musical work which has a central role in the film and is played during the final scene is the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
by Tchaikovsky. Classical selections by Mahler, Mendelssohn
, Mozart and Khachaturian are also included on the soundtrack.
Radu Mihaileanu
Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer...
starring Aleksei Guskov
Aleksei Guskov
Alexei Guskov Guennadievitch is a Russian actor and producer. He was awarded People's Artist of Russia in 2007.-Selected filmography:-External links:*...
, Mélanie Laurent
Mélanie Laurent
Mélanie Laurent is a French actress, director, singer and writer. She is best known to international audiences for her role as Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which she won Best Actress from the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics...
and Miou-Miou
Miou-Miou
Miou-Miou is a French actress. In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Yves Boisset, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Michel Deville, Diane Kurys, Radu Mihăileanu, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle.-Career:She was born...
. It has won the Best Original Score
César Award for Best Music Written for a Film
This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film . Before 2000, the award was called "César Award for Best Music".-1970s:...
and Best Sound
César Award for Best Sound
This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Sound .-Winners and nominees:*1976 : Nara Kollery *1977 : Jean-Pierre Ruh *1978 : Jacques Maumont...
awards at César Awards 2010
César Awards 2010
The 35th Annual César Awards ceremony was held by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to honor its selection of the best films of 2009 on February 27, 2010. Marion Cotillard was chosen as the Hononary President of the ceremony...
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Plot
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoi TheatreBolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds performances of ballet and opera. The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world...
orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in...
for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet
Théâtre du Châtelet
The Théâtre du Châtelet is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.One of two theatres built on the site of a châtelet, a small castle or fortress, it was designed by Gabriel Davioud at the request of Baron Haussmann between 1860 and...
. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Production
To prepare for her role, Laurent spent two months studying violin with Sarah Nemtanu of the Orchestre National de FranceOrchestre National de France
The Orchestre national de France is a symphony orchestra run by Radio France. It has also been known as the Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française and Orchestre national de l'Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française .Since 1944, the orchestra has been based in the Théâtre...
.
Casting
- Aleksei GuskovAleksei GuskovAlexei Guskov Guennadievitch is a Russian actor and producer. He was awarded People's Artist of Russia in 2007.-Selected filmography:-External links:*...
as Andreï Filipov - Mélanie LaurentMélanie LaurentMélanie Laurent is a French actress, director, singer and writer. She is best known to international audiences for her role as Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which she won Best Actress from the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics...
as Anne-Marie Jacquet - Dimitry Nazarov as Sacha Grossman
- Valeri Barinov as Ivan Gavrilov
- François BerléandFrançois BerléandFrançois Berléand is a French actor.Berléand was born in Paris, France of . He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in Le Bureau, the French version of The Office, produced by Canal+. He released a book about his childhood in 2006, Le fils de l'homme invisible...
as Olivier Morne Duplessis - Miou-MiouMiou-MiouMiou-Miou is a French actress. In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Yves Boisset, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Michel Deville, Diane Kurys, Radu Mihăileanu, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle.-Career:She was born...
as Guylène de La Rivière - Lionel AbelanskiLionel AbelanskiLionel Abelanski is a French actor.-Award:In 1999 he was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor for the film Train of Life .-Filmography:* Train of Life...
as Jean-Paul Carrère - Guillaume GallienneGuillaume GallienneGuillaume Gallienne is French actor who has been a member of the Comédie-Française company from 1998. He made his film debut 1992 in Tableau d'honneur and he has starred in Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola....
as a critic
Music
The film's original score was composed by Armand AmarArmand Amar
Armand Amar is an Israel-born French composer who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2010 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Le Concert .-Biography:...
with one track written by Radu Mihăileanu ("Le Trou Normand").
The musical work which has a central role in the film and is played during the final scene is the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)
The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878, is one of the best known of all violin concertos. It is also considered to be among the most technically difficult works for violin.-Instrumentation:...
by Tchaikovsky. Classical selections by Mahler, Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
, Mozart and Khachaturian are also included on the soundtrack.
- "Andreï I"
- "S'Il Vous Sied"
- "Nani, Nani" (Kek Lang Chants Roms)
- "Place Rouge I"
- "Andreï II"
- "Merci Bolchoï"
- "Kalinka"
- "100% Des Voix"
- "Kalou"
- "Je Vous Baise Chaleureusement"
- "Symphonie N°1 TitanSymphony No. 1 (Mahler)The Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was mainly composed between late 1887 and March 1888, though it incorporates music Mahler had composed for previous works. It was composed while Mahler was second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, Germany...
" - "Ci-Gît"
- "Danse Du Sabre RemixSabre Dance"The Sabre Dance" is a movement in the final act of the ballet Gayane , written by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's and completed in 1942. It evokes a whirling war dance in an Armenian dance, where the dancers display their skill with sabres. Its middle section incorporates an Armenian folk...
" - "Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on March 9, 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, four weeks after the completion of the previous D minor concerto.- Structure :There are three movements....
" - "Andreï III"
- "Tziganie"
- "Le Trou Normand"
- "Ai Routchiok" (Traditional)
- "Place Rouge II"
- "Je Régule L'Addition"
- "Sir Bina Ya Qitâr" (Les Musiciens du Nil)
- "Je Suis Ravissant De Vous Rencontrer"
- "Andreï IV"
- "Les Russes Sont Comme Des Mûles"
- "Avant Le Concert"
- "Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878, is one of the best known of all violin concertos. It is also considered to be among the most technically difficult works for violin.-Instrumentation:...
" - "Concert, Concert"
- "Vous Avez Voulu Des Russes"