Testimony
1988-11-01The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Dmitri Shostakovich
Ben Kingsley
Nina Shostakovich
Sherry Baines
Galya Shostakovich
Magdalen Asquith
Maxim Shostakovich
Mark Asquith

Joseph Stalin
Terence Rigby

Marshall Tukhachevsky
Ronald Pickup

Andre Zhdanov
John Shrapnel
Brutus
Robert Reynolds

Gargolovsky
Vernon Dobtcheff
H.G. Wells
Brook Williams

Alexander Glazunov
Peter Woodthorpe

Khatchaturyan
William Squire

Anna Akhmatova
Dorota Kwiatkowska

English Humanist
Liza Goddard

Film Editor
Murray Melvin

Journalist
Robert Urquhart

Carnival Thin Man
Chris Barrie

Carnival Fat Man
Frank Carson

American Commentator
Ed Bishop
Stalin's Secretary
Collin Hurst
Stalin's Mother
Joyce Grundy
Young Stalin
Mark Thrippleton

Vsevolod Meyerhold
Robert Stephens

The Film Editor
Murray Melvin
The Widow
Jane Cox
Andre Gide
Julian Stanley
Mandelstam
David Sharpe
Galya (aged 39)
Rowen Parr
Cossack
Bronco McLoughlin
Vanya
Christopher Bramwell
Madam Lupinskaya
Marita Philips
The Nun
Mitzi Mueller
Tsvetayeva
Tracey Spence
Malko
Andrew Brittain
Cross Eyed Man
Curly Carter
Concierge
Rosemary Chamney
Dorian Gray
Chris D'Bray
French Schoolmarm
Val Elliott
Mayakovsky
Peter Faulkner