 TESTIMONY
- The Story of Shostakovich
Directed by
Tony Palmer
Testimony, based
loosely on Shostakovichs own memoirs
as related to and edited by his colleague,
Solomon Volkov, is not just the story
of a composer. In fact, the musical
aspect of his life is only the sub-plot
to a far greater drama, the relationship
between Shostakovich and Stalin. Testimony
is about Russia during the reign of
Stalin. While politicians, generals,
peasants, poets, Church leaders were
being purged and destroyed - in all,
some 31 million of them -Shostakovich
somehow survived. How? Why? At what
cost, personal as well as public? It
is an amazing and awesome tale. It is
also true.
Review
by Rob Barnett
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Writing
credits
Tony Palmer
David Rudkin
Cast
Ben Kingsley .... Dmitri Shostakovich
Sherry Baines .... Nina Shostakovich
Magdalen Asquith .... Galya Shostakovich
Mark Asquith .... Maxim Shostakovich
Terence Rigby .... Joseph Stalin
Ronald Pickup .... Marshall Tukhachevsky
John Shrapnel .... Andre Zhdanov
Robert Reynolds .... Brutus
Vernon Dobtcheff .... Gargolovsky
Colin Hurst .... Stalin's Secretary
Joyce Grundy .... Stalin's Mother
Mark Thrippleton .... Young Stalin
Liza Goddard .... The English Humanist
Peter Woodthorpe .... Alexander
Glazunov
Robert Stephens .... Vsevolod Meyerhold
William Squire .... Khatchaturyan
Murray Melvin .... The Film Editor
Robert Urquhart .... The Journalist
Christopher Bramwell .... Vanya
Brook Williams .... H.G. Wells
Marita Phillips .... Madam Lupinskaya
Produced
by
Michael Henry .... executive producer
Grahame Jennings .... executive
producer
Michael Kustow .... executive producer
Maureen Murray .... associate producer
Tony Palmer .... producer
Solomon Volkov .... consultant
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DVD 151 minutes
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