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Title Testimony : story of Shostakovich / Film Four International presents an Isolde Films production in association with the Mandemar Group . [and others] ; written by David Rudkin ; produced, directed, edited, designed and co-written by Tony Palmer...

Publication Info. [Tyne and Wear, England] : Voiceprint, [2009]
©2009

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 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 92 SHOSTAKOVICH, DMI    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (151 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio 16:9 presentation; digitally remastered; Dolby stereo.
Cast Ben Kingsley (Dmitri Shostakovich), Terence Rigby (Stalin), Ronald Pickup (Tukhachevsky), John Shrapnel (Zhdanov), Sherry Baines (Nina Shostakovich), Magdalen Asquith ((Galya), Mark Asquith (Maxim), 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), Robert Reynolds (Brutus), Vernon Dobtcheff (Gargolovsky), Colin Hurst (Stalin's Secretary), Joyce Grundy (Stalin's Mother), Mark Thrippleton (young Stalin), Christopher Bramwell (Vanya), Brook Williams (H.G. Wells), Marita Phillips (Madam Lupinskaya) ; music performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra; Rudolf Barshai, conductor; Golden Age Singers; Yuzuko Horigome, violin; Howard Shelley, piano; John Shirley-Quirk, vocal; Felicity Palmer, vocal; Chilingirian Quartet.
Credits Photographed by Nic Knowland ; consultant, Solomon Volkov.
Note "From the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich edited by Solomon Volkov."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1988.
Audience Rating: Not rated.
Summary Based loosely on the memoirs of Shostakovich, a classical composer living in Russia during the reign of Stalin, this film traces the relationship between Shostakovich and Stalin and the effect that Stalin had on Shostakovich's life and work.
Note Includes extracts from: Symphonies 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14 ; Violin concerto no. 1 ; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ; Michelangelo sonnets ; Jazz suites 1 & 2 ; Piano concerto no. 2 ; String quartets nos. 8 & 10.
Awards Won 1988 San Paulo International Film Festival, Critics Award (Tony Palmer).
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 -- Drama.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Drama.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. (OCoLC)fst00046784
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953. (OCoLC)fst00053304
Chronological Term 1917 - 1953
Subject Composers -- Soviet Union -- Drama.
Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620
Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Drama.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Drama.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Drama.
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Genre/Form Biographical films.
Documentary-style films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Added Author Rudkin, David, 1936- Screenwriter.
Palmer, Tony, 1941- Director. Producer. Film editor. Screenwriter.
Kingsley, Ben, 1943- Actor.
Rigby, Terence. Actor.
Pickup, Ronald. Actor.
Shrapnel, John. Actor.
Baines, Sherry. Actor.
Asquith, Magdalen. Actor.
Asquith, Mark. Actor.
Goddard, Liza, 1950- Actor.
Woodthorpe, Peter. Actor.
Stephens, Robert, 1931-1995. Actor.
Squire, William. Actor.
Melvin, Murray, 1932- Actor.
Urquhart, Robert, 1921-1995. Actor.
Reynolds, Robert. Actor.
Dobtcheff, Vernon, 1934- Actor.
Hurst, Colin. Actor.
Grundy, Joyce. Actor.
Thrippleton, Mark. Actor.
Bramwell, Christopher. Actor.
Williams, Brook. Actor.
Phillips, Marita. Actor.
Barshai, Rudolf. Conductor.
Horigome, Yuzuko, 1957- Instrumentalist.
Shirley-Quirk, John. Singer.
Palmer, Felicity. Singer.
Shelley, Howard. Instrumentalist.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Svidetelʹstvo. English.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Works. Selections. 2006.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello. Selections.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphonies. Selections.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda. Selections.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Concertos, piano, orchestra, no. 2, op. 102. Selections.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Concertos, violin, orchestra, no. 1, op. 77, A minor. Selections.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Suites, jazz ensemble, no. 1. Selections.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Suites, jazz ensemble, no. 2 (1938). Selections.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Suites, bass, piano, op. 145. Selections.
Chilingirian String Quartet. Performer.
London Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer.
Golden Age Singers. Performer.
Film Four International. Producer.
Isolde Films Ltd. Producer.
Mandemar Group. Producer.
Voiceprint (Firm)
Standard No. 604388722501
Music No. TP-DVD145 Voiceprint
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