Testimony (1987)

Directed by

Tony Palmer

Genre

drama film, biographical film, musical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 37m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Dmitri Shostakovich, a Russian composer, dictates his memoirs about his life under Soviet rule. The film shows his struggles to create music while facing political pressure.

biographicalhistoricalmelancholicintrospectivesomberartisticreflectivepolitical

What happens

Testimony is a 1987 British independent 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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