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