The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
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