Testimony

Plot

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

  • Tony Palmer

    Director

  • Tony Palmer

    Writer

  • Solomon Volkov

    Book

  • David Rudkin

    Writer

  • Nicholas D. Knowland

    Director of Photography

  • Tony Palmer

    Editor

  • 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

  • Runtime

    157 minutes

    Released

    1988-11-01

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    Denmark

    Germany

    Netherlands

    Sweden

    United Kingdom

    Studios

    Isolde Films

    ORF

    Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS)

    DR

    SVT

    Film4 Productions

    Updated

    18 days ago

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