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Concert, The

A delightfully entertaining, moving, funny, well-acted film in which a disgraced, Jewish Russian conductor (Aleksei Guskov), who currently works as a janitor at the Bolshoi Ballet and is married to his outspoken, supportive wife (Anna Kamenkova), intercepts a fax to the Bolshoi's hotheaded director (Valentin Teodosiu) from a French theater director (François Berléand) inviting the Moscow orchestra to France and then concocts an elaborate, harebrained scheme with an ambulance driver (Dmitri Nazarov) and a zealous, French-speaking communist bigwig (Valeriy Barinov) to gather together his former talented musicians (Roger Dumas, et al.) and head to Paris to pull-off a challenging Tchaikovsky concert along with a world-famous violinist (Mélanie Laurent) to the chagrin of the musician's guardian and manager (Miou-Miou).
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