Testimony: From the Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich

Tony Palmer s 1988 film on the life, times and music of the Soviet composer, with Ben Kingsley as Shostakovich and Terence Rigby as Stalin. Ronald Pickup, John Shrapnel, Sherry Baines, Robert Stephens, Liza Goddard, Peter Woodthorpe and Murray Melvin also feature. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Rudolf Barshai.