¡Dmitry Shostakovich Viola Sonata
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[Machine Translation] This is a documentary on Shostakovich by Alexander Sokurov, the master of Russian cinema who created a sensation in Japan with his film "The Sun" (2005), which focuses on the Emperor Showa at the end of World War II. The film is a poetic collage of rare footage of Russia's greatest composer of the 20th century. Shostakovich was a composer whose true intentions are still shrouded in mystery, as he repeatedly feuded with and pandered to the powers of the time under the oppressive Soviet regime, including the Stalinist era. The KGB ordered the film to be banned and planned to confiscate it, but Sokurov and his colleagues took the risk of covering up the film, which was then undergoing a transition to the Gorbachev regime. The film was finally brought to light in 1987, after the transition to the Gorbachev administration, but it is a film with a history of controversy. The title of the film is named after Shostakovich's last work, "Viola Sonata," which is said to secretly contain the composer's last will and testament and his confession. This long-awaited work is sure to attract the attention of a wide range of people, from classical music fans to movie buffs.
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