Testimony (1988 film)
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| Testimony | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tony Palmer |
| Written by | David Rudkin |
| Produced by | Michael Kustow Grahame Jennings |
| Starring | Ben Kingsley Terence Rigby Ronald Pickup John Shrapnel Liza Goddard |
| Cinematography | Nic Knowland |
| Edited by | Tony Palmer |
| Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich London Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Distributed by | Enterprise Pictures Limited |
Release date |
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Running time | 157 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Testimony is a 1988 British independent
ISBN 0-87910-021-4) and filmed in Panavision
.
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 Mikhail Tukhachevsky
- John Shrapnel as Andrei Zhdanov
- Robert Reynolds as Brutus
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Gargolovsky
- Colin Hurst as Stalin's Secretary
- Joyce Grundy as Keke Geladze
- Mark Thrippleton as Young Joseph Stalin
- Liza Goddard as The English Humanist
- Peter Woodthorpe as Alexander Glazunov
- Robert Stephens as Vsevolod Meyerhold
- William Squire as Aram Khachaturian
- Murray Melvin as The Film Editor
- Robert Urquhart as The Journalist
- Christopher Bramwell as Vanya
- Brook Williams as H. G. Wells
- Marita Phillipsas Madam Lupinskaya
Music
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Leader: David Nolan
- Conductor: Rudolf Barshai
- The Golden Age Singers
- Chorus Master: Simon Preston
- Chilingirian Quartet
- Soloists
- Margaret Fingerhut
- Yuzuko Horigome
- Felicity Palmer
- Howard Shelley
- John Shirley-Quirk
Awards
- Winner of the gold medal for Best Drama - New York International Film Festival
- Winner of the Fellini Prize - UNESCO
- Winner of the Critics Prize - São Paulo International Film Festival
See also
Further reading
- Volkov, Solomon: Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator; Knopf 2004. ISBN 0-375-41082-1
- Fay, Laurel: Shostakovich versus Volkov: Whose Testimony? – The Russian Review, vol. 39 no. 4 October 1980 pp. 484–493.
External links
- Testimony at IMDb
- Testimony at Rotten Tomatoes
