Filmmakers
Above the lineTP
Director
Tony Palmer
TP
Screenplay
Tony Palmer
Writer
DR
Screenplay
David Rudkin
Writer
NK
Cinematography
Nicholas D. Knowland
Director of Photography
TP
Editing
Tony Palmer
Editor
ZM
Music
Zeljko Marasovich
ZM
Music
Zeljko Marasovich
Original Music Composer
TP
Production Design
Tony Palmer
Cast
39BK
Ben Kingsley
Dmitri Shostakovich
SB
Sherry Baines
Nina Shostakovich
MA
Magdalen Asquith
Galya Shostakovich
MA
Mark Asquith
Maxim Shostakovich
TR
Terence Rigby
Joseph Stalin
RP
Ronald Pickup
Marshall Tukhachevsky
JS
John Shrapnel
Andre Zhdanov
RR
Robert Reynolds
Brutus
VD
Vernon Dobtcheff
Gargolovsky
BW
Brook Williams
H.G. Wells
PW
Peter Woodthorpe
Alexander Glazunov
WS
William Squire
Khatchaturyan
DK
Dorota Kwiatkowska
Anna Akhmatova
LG
Liza Goddard
English Humanist
MM
Murray Melvin
Film Editor
RU
Robert Urquhart
Journalist
CB
Chris Barrie
Carnival Thin Man
FC
Frank Carson
Carnival Fat Man
EB
Ed Bishop
American Commentator
CH
Collin Hurst
Stalin's Secretary
JG
Joyce Grundy
Stalin's Mother
MT
Mark Thrippleton
Young Stalin
RS
Robert Stephens
Vsevolod Meyerhold
MM
Murray Melvin
The Film Editor
JC
Jane Cox
The Widow
JS
Julian Stanley
Andre Gide
DS
David Sharpe
Mandelstam
RP
Rowen Parr
Galya (aged 39)
BM
Bronco McLoughlin
Cossack
CB
Christopher Bramwell
Vanya
MP
Marita Philips
Madam Lupinskaya
MM
Mitzi Mueller
The Nun
TS
Tracey Spence
Tsvetayeva
AB
Andrew Brittain
Malko
CC
Curly Carter
Cross Eyed Man
RC
Rosemary Chamney
Concierge
CD
Chris D'Bray
Dorian Gray
VE
Val Elliott
French Schoolmarm
PF
Peter Faulkner
Mayakovsky
Departments
7Production
- Maureen MurrayAssociate Producer
- Grahame JenningsProducer
- Michael HenryProducer
- Tony PalmerProducer
- Michael KustowProducer
Sound
- John LundstenSound Recordist
Writing
- Solomon VolkovBook