Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler vs My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow). Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 5h 24m. Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow| Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler | My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2011 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 27m | 5h 24m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United States of America | United States of America |
| Director | Peter Rosen | Julia Loktev |
| Main cast | Itzhak Perlman, Jascha Heifetz | Anna Nemzer, Ksenia Mironova, Sofya Groysman, Olga Churakova, Irina Dolinina |
Synopsis
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. Jascha Heifetz was the first truly modern virtuoso, a man about whom Itzhak Perlman said, 'When I spoke with him, I can't believe, I'm talking to God'. Heifetz was a legendary but mysterious figure whose story embodies the dual nature of artistic genius. The paradox of how a mortal man lives with immortal gifts - gifts he must honor, but which extract a life-long price. Is the man…
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.
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