Drama History
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Directed by
Tony Palmer
Written by
Tony Palmer, David Rudkin
Ben Kingsley
Dmitri Shostakovich
John Shrapnel
Andre Zhdanov
William Squire
Khatchaturyan
Peter Woodthorpe
Alexander Glazunov
Vernon Dobtcheff
Gargolovsky
Liza Goddard
English Humanist
Robert Stephens
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Ronald Pickup
Marshall Tukhachevsky
Chris Barrie
Carnival Thin Man
Terence Rigby
Joseph Stalin
Ed Bishop
American Commentator
Robert Urquhart
Journalist
Murray Melvin
Film Editor
Frank Carson
Carnival Fat Man
Dorota Kwiatkowska
Anna Akhmatova
Sherry Baines
Nina Shostakovich
Magdalen Asquith
Galya Shostakovich
Mark Asquith
Maxim Shostakovich
Robert Reynolds
Brutus
Brook Williams
H.G. Wells
Collin Hurst
Stalin's Secretary
Joyce Grundy
Stalin's Mother
Mark Thrippleton
Young Stalin
Jane Cox
The Widow
Julian Stanley
Andre Gide
David Sharpe
Mandelstam
Rowen Parr
Galya (aged 39)
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

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