On screen
Cast
38 credited performers
Ben Kingsley
Dmitri Shostakovich
Artwork unavailable
Sherry Baines
Nina Shostakovich
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Magdalen Asquith
Galya Shostakovich
Artwork unavailable
Mark Asquith
Maxim Shostakovich
Terence Rigby
Joseph Stalin
Ronald Pickup
Marshall Tukhachevsky
John Shrapnel
Andre Zhdanov
Artwork unavailable
Robert Reynolds
Brutus
Vernon Dobtcheff
Gargolovsky
Brook Williams
H.G. Wells
Artwork unavailable
Peter Woodthorpe
Alexander Glazunov
William Squire
Khatchaturyan
Dorota Kwiatkowska
Anna Akhmatova
Liza Goddard
English Humanist
Murray Melvin
Film Editor
Robert Urquhart
Journalist
Chris Barrie
Carnival Thin Man
Frank Carson
Carnival Fat Man
Ed Bishop
American Commentator
Artwork unavailable
Collin Hurst
Stalin's Secretary
Artwork unavailable
Joyce Grundy
Stalin's Mother
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Mark Thrippleton
Young Stalin
Robert Stephens
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Jane Cox
The Widow
Artwork unavailable
Julian Stanley
Andre Gide
Artwork unavailable
David Sharpe
Mandelstam
Artwork unavailable
Rowen Parr
Galya (aged 39)
Artwork unavailable
Bronco McLoughlin
Cossack
Artwork unavailable
Christopher Bramwell
Vanya
Artwork unavailable
Marita Philips
Madam Lupinskaya
Artwork unavailable
Mitzi Mueller
The Nun
Artwork unavailable
Tracey Spence
Tsvetayeva
Artwork unavailable
Andrew Brittain
Malko
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Curly Carter
Cross Eyed Man
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Rosemary Chamney
Concierge
Artwork unavailable
Chris D'Bray
Dorian Gray
Artwork unavailable
Val Elliott
French Schoolmarm
Artwork unavailable
Peter Faulkner
Mayakovsky