In Soviet-era Estonia, three young mavericks drop everything and flee to Sweden, but soon learn the free world is not all it's cracked up to be.

1920年12月1日,爱沙尼亚首都塔林的共产国际成员发动政变夺取政权.经历过一系列混乱的战斗,终于脱离了沙俄,建立了自己的共产主义国家...

1938年，肖斯塔科维奇建议学生弗莱施曼（犹太人）以契诃夫的《罗斯柴尔德的小提琴》为蓝本，写作一部独幕歌剧。1941年，苏德战争爆发，弗莱施曼志愿从军，战死于列宁格勒外围防御阵地。1944，肖斯塔科维奇续完了学生遗作。1996年，法国拍摄的电影《罗斯柴尔德小提琴》取材于这段历史，并全部囊括这部长达四十多分钟的歌剧。俄国指挥大师罗日杰斯特文斯基为影片录制了歌剧录音。该版电影原声唱片见：

Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic gadgets is held in great esteem. Every year the villagers organize an annual competition of new inventions. One of the best inventors in the village is Oskar, Lotte's father. His primary rival is Adalbert, whose wife also partakes in the competition. On the eve of the next competition, Lotte and her friend Bruno find a book soaked in the sea, from which Susumu, a gardener from distant Japan, climbs out. Susumu teaches the villagers some judo throws before a big judo competition, which the latter will eagerly use to facilitate their daily lives.