Kushnir
A film about Pavel Kushnir — a musician who refused to compromise, in art or in conscience.A “great little man,” as his friends describe him, Pavel played sublime music for two elderly women in an empty community hall with the same devotion he would have brought to Carnegie Hall.
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A film about Pavel Kushnir — a musician who refused to compromise, in art or in conscience. A “great little man,” as his friends describe him, Pavel played sublime music for two elderly women in an empty community hall with the same devotion he would have brought to Carnegie Hall. He wrote extraordinary novels and dared to protest, fully aware of the consequences. In 2024, Pavel Kushnir died in a prison in Birobidzhan.
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- Release date
- Dec 13, 2025
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
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- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Czech Republic, United States of America
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