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Testimony

Wide-screen feature about the life of Dmitri Shostakovich, starring Ben Kingsley, 1987. Director of Photography: Nic Knowland.

Denounced. Shostakovich in Moscow, January 1948. Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich], St. George's Hall, Liverpool. February 1987
Colin Hurst [Stalin’s secretary]. Location: Haigh Hall, Wigan. February 1987
Ivanovo. Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich] at desk. Magdalen Asquith [Galya Shostakovich, his daughter] at window. Location: Haigh Hall, Wigan. February 1987
The death of Stalin
Stalin on his death bed
Terence Rigby [Stalin]. Location: Haigh Hall, Wigan. February 1987
Terence Rigby [Stalin], setting up the shot. Location: Haigh Hall, Wigan. February 1987
Lisa Goddard [Beatrice Webb]. Brook Williams [H.G. Wells]. Location: Alhambra Theatre, Bradford. February 1987
Terence Rigby [Stalin]. Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich]. Location: Alhambra Theatre, Bradford. February 1987
Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich]. Setting up the shot, director of photography Nic Knowland at left. Location: Alhambra Theatre, Bradford. February 1987
Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich]. Location: Alhambra Theatre, Bradford. February 1987
Derek Hatton, famously a member of Militant, the Trotskyist organisation, also Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council. Palmer though it might be amusing to include Hatton in a cameo role as a Russian thug but later changed his mind. Location: Alhambra Theatre, Bradford. February 1987
Location: Haigh Hall, Wigan. February 1987
Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich]. Location: Haigh Hall, Wigan. February 1987
Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich]. Ronald Pickup [Tukhachevsky]. Location: Lever Park, Bolton. February 1987
Murray Melvin [film editor at the Stahfilm Studios]. Location: Eckersley Mill No.2, Swan Meadow, Wigan. February 1987
Stahfilm Studios. Location: Eckersley Mill No.2, Swan Meadow, Wigan. February 1987
Tony Palmer addressing extras on the set. Location: St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. February 1987
John Shrapnel [Zhdanov] denounes Shostakovich from the podium in Moscow, January 1948. Location: St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. February 1987
Shostakovich is denounced from the podium in Moscow, January 1948. Location: St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. February 1987
Magdalen Asquith [Galya Shostakovich, Dmitri’s daughter]. Sherry Baines [Nina Shostkovich, Dmitri’s wife]. Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich]. February 1987
Preparations for the Carnival Of The Dead. Location: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Windermere. February 1987
Extras prepare for The Night Carnival Of The Dead. Location: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Windermere. February 1987
Comedians Frank Carson and Chris Barry at the Night Carnival Of The Dead. Location: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Windermere. February 1987
Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich]. Location: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Windermere. February 1987
Arrival in New York. Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich] at top of steps. Location: Coventry airfield. March 1987
Celebrated lady professional wrestler Mitzi Mueller [pornographic nun] at the Night Carnival Of The Dead. Location: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Windermere. February 1987
Location: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Windermere. February 1987
Ben Kingsley [Dmitri Shostakovich] at the constructivist piano. 1987

 

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