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
2021
2020
2010
2018
2003
2011
2019
2017
2013
2002
1993
2008
1995
1968
2022
2000
2001
2005
2024
N/A
1965
1982
2016
2004
1981
1959
1989
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