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Ben Kingsley as Dmitri Shostakovich |
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Sherry Baines as Nina Shostakovich |
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Magdalen Asquith as Galya Shostakovich |
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Mark Asquith as Maxim Shostakovich |
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Terence Rigby as Joseph Stalin |
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Ronald Pickup as Marshall Tukhachevsky |
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John Shrapnel as Andre Zhdanov |
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Robert Reynolds as Brutus |
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Vernon Dobtcheff as Gargolovsky |
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Brook Williams as H.G. Wells |
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Peter Woodthorpe as Alexander Glazunov |
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William Squire as Khatchaturyan |
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Dorota Kwiatkowska as Anna Akhmatova |
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Liza Goddard as English Humanist |
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Murray Melvin as Film Editor |
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Robert Urquhart as Journalist |
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Chris Barrie as Carnival Thin Man |
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Frank Carson as Carnival Fat Man |
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Ed Bishop as American Commentator |
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Collin Hurst as Stalin's Secretary |
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Joyce Grundy as Stalin's Mother |
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Mark Thrippleton as Young Stalin |
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Robert Stephens as Vsevolod Meyerhold |
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Murray Melvin as The Film Editor |
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Jane Cox as The Widow |
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Julian Stanley as Andre Gide |
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David Sharpe as Mandelstam |
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Rowen Parr as Galya (aged 39) |
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Bronco McLoughlin as Cossack |
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Christopher Bramwell as Vanya |
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Marita Philips as Madam Lupinskaya |
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Mitzi Mueller as The Nun |
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Tracey Spence as Tsvetayeva |
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Andrew Brittain as Malko |
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Curly Carter as Cross Eyed Man |
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Rosemary Chamney as Concierge |
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Chris D'Bray as Dorian Gray |
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Val Elliott as French Schoolmarm |
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Peter Faulkner as Mayakovsky |
| Camera | Nicholas D. Knowland | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Tony Palmer | Director |
| Production | Grahame Jennings | Producer |
| Sound | Zeljko Marasovich | Music |
| Editing | Tony Palmer | Editor |
| Production | Michael Henry | Producer |
| Production | Tony Palmer | Producer |
| Writing | Tony Palmer | Writer |
| Production | Michael Kustow | Producer |
| Writing | David Rudkin | Writer |
| Production | Maureen Murray | Associate Producer |
| Writing | Solomon Volkov | Book |
| Art | Tony Palmer | Production Design |
| Sound | Zeljko Marasovich | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | John Lundsten | Sound Recordist |