(The film was shot after Alexander Galich's play "Matrosskaya Tishina". The land of promise does not exist and success brings no happiness if for its sake you forget your past. Only those who love you and forgive you everything can give you real happiness. This story of love, betrayal and forgiveness is set in the 1930s. A young talented violinist comes to study in Moscow. Here he finds love, success and fame. However, he has to conceal his background. When the secret is out he just has to deny his father or lose all. In June 2004 the movie Papa won the viewers' choice award at the 26th Moscow international film festival. In August 2004 the film took the Best Actor (Vladimir Mashkov) and viewers' choice awards at the Window to Europe film festival in Vyborg.)
This charity concert is dedicated to Hanuka, one of main Jewish holidays, and opens a series of events devoted to the 100th anniversary of the Moscow choral synagogue, which will be marked on August 1, 2006, said the Moscow Jewish religious community.
Andrei Rozendent, 15, laureate of an international contest, and the Bolshoi Theater's symphony orchestra will perform Ernst Bloch's Improvisation, which is considered a masterpiece of Jewish symphony music. This composition was performed in Russia for the last time 25 years ago during the Olympic Games in Moscow in the Conservatory's Great Hall by the Soviet State Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Svetlanov's baton. This time Israel's Eli Yaffe will conduct the Bolshoi orchestra.
Prominent cantor Haim Adler and Israeli instrumentalist Asaf Rot will participate in the Hanuka charity concert in the Bolshoi Theater.
