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