Film
Testimony
Denmark · Germany · Netherlands · Sweden · United Kingdom- Director
- Tony Palmer
- Year
- 1988
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Top 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
Robert Urquhart
Journalist
Chris Barrie
Carnival Thin Man
Frank Carson
Carnival Fat Man
Directed by
Tony Palmer
Written by
Tony Palmer, David Rudkin
Produced by
Grahame Jennings, Michael Henry, Tony Palmer, Michael Kustow
