Andrew Neuman is nineteen
and a talented drummer with dreams of becoming a great jazzman — like Buddy Rich or Charlie Parker.
But the joy is short-lived, for the training here is built on total submission to a brutal conductor whose motto is "nothing hurts as much as praise.
english, russian subtitles
Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, Jayson Blair, Kavita Patil
All the opportunities are there: he enters the country’s premier music school and almost immediately finds himself in the elite conservatory orchestra.