The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Tony PalmerDirector
Dmitri Shostakovich
Nina Shostakovich
Galya Shostakovich
Maxim Shostakovich
Joseph Stalin
Marshall Tukhachevsky
Andre Zhdanov
Brutus
Gargolovsky
H.G. Wells
Alexander Glazunov
Khatchaturyan
Anna Akhmatova
English Humanist
Film Editor
Journalist
Carnival Thin Man
Carnival Fat Man
American Commentator
Stalin's Secretary
Stalin's Mother
Young Stalin
Vsevolod Meyerhold
The Film Editor
The Widow
Andre Gide
Mandelstam
Galya (aged 39)
Cossack
Vanya
Madam Lupinskaya
The Nun
Tsvetayeva
Malko
Cross Eyed Man
Concierge
Dorian Gray
French Schoolmarm
Mayakovsky
