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The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after his opera is condemned. A stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror, and for decades he has to weigh appeasing those in power in Soviet Russia against the integrity of his music.Read moreLess
The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after his opera is condemned. A stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror, and for decades he has to weigh appeasing those in power in Soviet Russia against the integrity of his music.
The story
The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after his opera is condemned. A stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror, and for decades he has to weigh appeasing those in power in Soviet Russia against the integrity of his music.
Cast & crew
August DiehlDimitri Shostakovich
Andrea RiseboroughNina ShostakovichExplore the crew
- Producer
- Finola Dwyer
- Producer
- Thomas Kufus
- Producer
- Leszek Bodzak
- Writer
- Christopher Hampton
- Producer
- Amanda Posey
- Director
- Jan Komasa
- Producer
- Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham