The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
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
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
The Film Editor
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
Tony Palmer
Director, Writer, Producer
David Rudkin
Writer
Grahame Jennings
Producer
Michael Henry
Michael Kustow
Dec 1, 2014
Feb 7, 1952
Nov 14, 1980
Jan 5, 2007
Oct 7, 1987
Oct 25, 1996
Oct 29, 2004
Sep 28, 2007
Oct 23, 2020
Dec 31, 2021
Feb 1, 2018
Jul 15, 2011
Oct 8, 2010
Dec 13, 2019
Nov 14, 2003
Jun 11, 2021
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