The Rothschild Violet is a Finnish-Hungaro-French-Swiss film directed by Argentinian Edgardo Cozarinsky, released in 1996.The subject of the film is the unfinished eponymous opera by Benjamin Fleischmann, a student of composer Dimitri Chostakovich. "The Rothschild Violet is one of the few contemporary films to measure the history of this century, and must be counted as one of the very great works of cinema made since the post-war period. Produced in France and filmed in Russian by a filmmaker of Argentine origin, it also embodies a "cosmopoliticism" that the century in question has not ceased to victimize, which does not ruin anything." Jacques Mandelbaum, Le Monde, "Televisions" book, Sunday, 6 - Monday, December 7, 2009, p. 12.