Plot Summary:Supporting his family at 8, playing for silent movies, surviving pogroms, Piatigorsky became principal cellist of the Bolshoi at 15 \u0026 met Lenin. Virtuoso cellist and raconteur, escaping the Soviet Union made him an action hero. Fleeing Europe in 1939 to become an American, 'The Cellist' revels in his musicianship, wit \u0026 humanity, as recounted by the virtuosic cellists and musicians he taught.