Testimony is a 1987 British independent 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.
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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 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
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