if it isnt counterpoint

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.

An early poem by Nikolai Gumilev becomes a counterpoint to the events of the Civil War of 1921. The film is dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the death of the Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev. The film is about the fact that in his poem the poet predicted his posthumous fame.