The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Cast
Ben Kingsley
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sherry Baines
Nina Shostakovich
Magdalen Asquith
Galya Shostakovich
Mark Asquith
Maxim Shostakovich
Terence Rigby
Joseph Stalin
Ronald Pickup
Marshall Tukhachevsky
John Shrapnel
Andre Zhdanov
Robert Reynolds
Brutus
Vernon Dobtcheff
Gargolovsky
Brook Williams
H.G. Wells
Peter Woodthorpe
Alexander Glazunov
William Squire
Khatchaturyan
Dorota Kwiatkowska
Anna Akhmatova
Liza Goddard
English Humanist
Murray Melvin
Film Editor, The Film Editor
Robert Urquhart
Journalist
Chris Barrie
Carnival Thin Man
Frank Carson
Carnival Fat Man
Ed Bishop
American Commentator
Collin Hurst
Stalin's Secretary
Joyce Grundy
Stalin's Mother
Mark Thrippleton
Young Stalin
Robert Stephens
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Jane Cox
The Widow
Julian Stanley
Andre Gide
David Sharpe
Mandelstam
Rowen Parr
Galya (aged 39)
Bronco McLoughlin
Cossack
Christopher Bramwell
Vanya
Marita Philips
Madam Lupinskaya
Mitzi Mueller
The Nun
Tracey Spence
Tsvetayeva
Andrew Brittain
Malko
Curly Carter
Cross Eyed Man
Rosemary Chamney
Concierge
Chris D'Bray
Dorian Gray
Val Elliott
French Schoolmarm
Peter Faulkner
Mayakovsky
Crew
Tony Palmer
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Production Design
David Rudkin
Writer
Solomon Volkov
Book
Nicholas D. Knowland
Director of Photography
Grahame Jennings
Producer
Michael Kustow
Producer
Michael Henry
Producer
Maureen Murray
Associate Producer
John Lundsten
Sound Recordist
Zeljko Marasovich
Original Music Composer, Music
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