Director
Tony Palmer
Composer
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj
Cast
Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith
157'
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1987
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Drama, Biography
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Dialogue:
English
Shostakovich was born in 1906, in St. Petersburg. He survived the Russian Revolution and soon became wildly succesful and popular. His symponies and his operas were performed
throughout the land, to great acclaim. Then, the fall. Stalin disliked the opera Lady Macbeth;
Pravda wrote that Shostakovich's music was chaos. He was denounced and humilated and he
apologised. But at least he was not shot and lived on writing music. Yet after the War, Stalin
chose to denigrate him, even to the extent of sending Shostakovich to an International Peace
Congress in New York and forcing him to castigate those of his fellow musicians who had fled
Russia. Shostakovich never forgave himself for this betrayal to his friends. (pressbook)
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Credits
Directors
Tony Palmer
Composers
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj
Cast
Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith
Scenario
Tony Palmer, David Rudkin
Producers
Tony Palmer
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, West Germany
Year
1987