Testimony

"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

Peter Woodthorpe

as Alexander Glazunov

William Squire

as Khatchaturyan

Dorota Kwiatkowska

as Anna Akhmatova

Liza Goddard

as English Humanist

Murray Melvin

as Film Editor

Robert Urquhart

as Journalist

Chris Barrie

as Carnival Thin Man

Frank Carson

as Carnival Fat Man

Ed Bishop

as American Commentator

Collin Hurst

as Stalin's Secretary

Joyce Grundy

as Stalin's Mother

Mark Thrippleton

as Young Stalin

Robert Stephens

as Vsevolod Meyerhold

Murray Melvin

as The Film Editor

Jane Cox

as The Widow

Julian Stanley

as Andre Gide

David Sharpe

as Mandelstam

Rowen Parr

as Galya (aged 39)

Bronco McLoughlin

as Cossack

Christopher Bramwell

as Vanya

Marita Philips

as Madam Lupinskaya

Mitzi Mueller

as The Nun

Tracey Spence

as Tsvetayeva

Andrew Brittain

as Malko

Curly Carter

as Cross Eyed Man

Rosemary Chamney

as Concierge

Chris D'Bray

as Dorian Gray

Val Elliott

as French Schoolmarm

Peter Faulkner

as Mayakovsky

Crew

Nicholas D. Knowland

Director of Photography

Tony Palmer

Director

Grahame Jennings

Producer

Zeljko Marasovich

Music

Michael Kustow

Producer

Tony Palmer

Writer

Michael Henry

Producer

Solomon Volkov

Book

Maureen Murray

Associate Producer

Tony Palmer

Production Design

Tony Palmer

Producer

David Rudkin

Writer

Tony Palmer

Editor

Zeljko Marasovich

Original Music Composer

John Lundsten

Sound Recordist