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Director
  
Tony Palmer

Screenplay
  
Tony Palmer, David Rudkin

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Genre
  
Biography, Drama, History

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Testimony (1988 film) movie poster

Release date
  
November, 1988

Writer
  
Tony Palmer, David Rudkin, Solomon Volkov (book)

Music director
  
Dmitri Shostakovich, Zeljko Marasovic

Cast
  
Ben Kingsley
(Dmitri Shostakovich),
Terence Rigby
(Joseph Stalin),
Sherry Baines
(Nina Shostakovich),
Vernon Dobtcheff
(Gargolovsky),
Robert Stephens
(Meyerhold)

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Testimony from the memoirs of dmitri shostakovich


Testimony: The Story of Shostakovich is a 1988 British musical drama film directed by Tony Palmer and starring Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines and Robert Stephens. The film is based on the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) as dictated in the book Testimony (edited by Solomon Volkov, ISBN 0-87910-021-4) and filmed in Panavision. Some consider the book to be a fabrication.

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The 1988 original testimony of ian mccormack


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

    • Cast

  • Ben Kingsley as Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Sherry Baines as Nina Shostakovich
  • Magdalen Asquith as Galya Shostakovich
  • Mark Asquith as Maxim Shostakovich
  • Terence Rigby as Stalin
  • Ronald Pickup as Tukhachevsky
  • John Shrapnel as Zhdanov
  • Robert Reynolds as Brutus
  • Vernon Dobtcheff as Gargolovsky
  • Colin Hurst as Stalin’s Secretary
  • Joyce Grundy as Stalin’s Mother
  • Mark Thrippleton as Young Stalin
  • Liza Goddard as The English Humanist
  • Peter Woodthorpe as Glazunov
  • Robert Stephens as Meyerhold
  • William Squire as Khachaturian
  • Murray Melvin as The Film Editor
  • Robert Urquhart as The Journalist
  • Christopher Bramwell as Vanya
  • Brook Williams as H. G. Wells
  • Marita Phillips as 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

    • References

    Testimony (1988 film) Wikipedia
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    Testimony (1988 film) IMDb Testimony (1988 film) themoviedb.org