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Testimony is a British film of genre Drama directed by Tony Palmer released in USA on 1 november 1988 with Ben Kingsley

Testimony (1988)

Testimony
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Released in USA 1 november 1988
Length 2h31
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical,    Musical
Rating69% 3.479533.479533.479533.479533.47953

Testimony: The Story of Shostakovich is a 1988 British 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. Some consider the book to be a fabrication.

Actors

Ben Kingsley

(Dmitri Shostakovich)Terence Rigby

(Joseph Stalin)Ronald Pickup

(Marshall Tukhachevsky)John Shrapnel

(Andre Zhdanov)Vernon Dobtcheff

(Gargolovsky)
And :
Mark Thrippleton
Liza Goddard
Peter Woodthorpe
Robert Stephens
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