Testimony (1988)

Dir: Tony Palmer Biography / Drama / History / Music stars 3

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Testimony is a Danish-Swedish-British period drama film first released in 1988, directed by Tony Palmer. The film stars Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith, Mark Asquith and Terence Rigby. Our overall rating for this film is: good.

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Credits

Director: Tony Palmer
Script: Tony Palmer, David Rudkin, Solomon Volkov
Photo: Nicholas D. Knowland
Music: Zeljko Marasovich
Cast: Ben Kingsley (Dmitri Shostakovich), Sherry Baines (Nina Shostakovich), Magdalen Asquith (Galya Shostakovich), Mark Asquith (Maxim Shostakovich), Terence Rigby (Joseph Stalin), Ronald Pickup (Marshall Tukhachevsky), John Shrapnel (Andre Zhdanov), Robert Reynolds (Brutus), Vernon Dobtcheff (Gargolovsky), Colin Hurst (Stalin’s Secretary), Joyce Grundy (Stalin’s Mother), Mark Thrippleton (Young Stalin), Liza Goddard (The English Humanist), Peter Woodthorpe (Alexander Glazunov), Robert Stephens (Vsevolod Meyerhold), William Squire (Khatchaturyan), Murray Melvin (The Film Editor), Robert Urquhart (The Journalist), Christopher Bramwell (Vanya), Brook Williams (H.G. Wells), Marita Phillips (Madam Lupinskaya), Frank Carson (Carnival Fat Man), Chris Barrie (Carnival Thin Man), Mitzi Mueller (The Nun), Tracey Spence (Tsvetayeva), Dorota Kwiatkowska (Akhmatova), Ed Bishop (American Commentator), Andrew Brittain (Malko), Curly Carter (Cross Eyed Man), Rosemary Chamney (Concierge), Jane Cox (The Widow), Chris D’Bray (Dorian Gray), Val Elliott (French Schoolmarm), Peter Faulkner (Mayakovsky), Margaret Fingerhut (Christian Woman), Nicholas Fry (Maxim (aged 37)), Igor Gridneff (Blind Man), Rodney Litchfield (Sherlock Holmes), Van Martin (German Humanist), Bronco McLoughlin (Cossack), Rowena Parr (Galya (aged 39)), David Sharpe (Mandelstam), Julian Stanley (Andre Gide)
Country: Denmark / Netherlands / Sweden / West Germany / UK
Language: English
Runtime: 157 min; B&W

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