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    Testimony
    a.k.a. Tony Palmer's Film of Shostakovich: Testimony Director: Tony Palmer Cast: Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith, Mark Asquith

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/15/2009
    • Original Release: 1987
    • Sales Rank: 29,343

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    Disc #1 -- Tony Palmer's Film of Shostakovich: Testimony
    1. Death of a Composer - Glazunov: 8th Symphony [8:28]
    2. First Composer of the Revolution - 1st Symphony & The Golden Age Tukhachevsky & Meyerhold [4:04]
    3. Stalin - 13th Symphony [2:12]
    4. Carnival - 8th Symphony [2:58]
    5. Lady Macbeth - Tukhachevsky [9:54]
    6. Revolution - 11th Symphony [5:18]
    7. Eisenstein & the film studio - 11th Symphony [8:27]
    8. At The Bolshoi - 5th Symphony [6:37]
    9. At home - Nina, Galya & Maxim: Piano Concerto No.2 [3:06]
    10. The Terror - String Quartet No. 8 & 10th Symphony [8:26]
    11. The Siege of Leningrad, pt 1 - Vanya: 7th Symphony [12:18]
    12. "Then we ate the Jews" 5th Symphony [2:46]
    13. Denunciation - Zhdanov [6:57]
    14. "To Reach the People" Violin Concerto No. 1 [8:41]
    15. America - The Golden Age Polka [13:18]
    16. Meeting Stalin - Khatchaturyan: 14th Symphony [7:49]
    17. Death of Stalin: 11th Symphony & Mozart Piano Concerto K488 [9:18]
    18. "Let the Hammer Fall" - Michelangelo Sonnets [3:48]
    19. Babiy Yar - 13th Symphony [13:09]
    20. "Have You Seen My Son" - Piano Concerto No. 2 [9:16]
    21. 30 Million Dead - String Quartet No. 10 [3:18]

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    Ben Kingsley stars as celebrated Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in this lengthy historical biography. Along with Prokofiev, Shostakovich is considered among the elite of the 20th-century composers to emerge from his country. Striving to be true to his art form, the composer was caught in the political crossfire of the Stalin regime and was criticized for being politically ambiguous. Under constant pressure, Shostakovich silenced many of his critics when he remained in Leningrad during the Nazi siege to complete his stirring 7th symphony. Terrence Rigby plays Stalin, with Ronald Pickup as the ill-fated Soviet official Tukhachevsky, another of Stalin's many victims. Shostakovich lived until 1975. Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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