The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Ben Kingsley
Dmitri Shostakovich
Terence Rigby
Joseph Stalin
Ronald Pickup
Marshall Tukhachevsky
John Shrapnel
Andre Zhdanov
Vernon Dobtcheff
Gargolovsky
Peter Woodthorpe
Alexander Glazunov
William Squire
Khatchaturyan
Dorota Kwiatkowska
Anna Akhmatova
Liza Goddard
English Humanist
Murray Melvin
The Film Editor
Robert Urquhart
Journalist
Chris Barrie
Carnival Thin Man
Frank Carson
Carnival Fat Man
Ed Bishop
American Commentator