Overview
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Cast
- Ben Kingsley as Dmitri Shostakovich
- Sherry Baines as Nina Shostakovich
- Magdalen Asquith as Galya Shostakovich
- Mark Asquith as Maxim Shostakovich
- Terence Rigby as Joseph Stalin
- Ronald Pickup as Marshall Tukhachevsky
- John Shrapnel as Andre Zhdanov
- Robert Reynolds as Brutus
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Gargolovsky
- Brook Williams as H.G. Wells