Top Billed Cast

1. 

   Ben Kingsley

   Dmitri Shostakovich

2. 

   Sherry Baines

   Nina Shostakovich

3. 

   Magdalen Asquith

   Galya Shostakovich

4. 

   Mark Asquith

   Maxim Shostakovich

5. 

   Terence Rigby

   Joseph Stalin

6. 

   Ronald Pickup

   Marshall Tukhachevsky

7. 

   John Shrapnel

   Andre Zhdanov

8. 

   Robert Reynolds

   Brutus

9. 

   Vernon Dobtcheff

   Gargolovsky

10. 

    Brook Williams

    H.G. Wells

11. 

    Peter Woodthorpe

    Alexander Glazunov

12. 

    William Squire

    Khatchaturyan

13. 

    Dorota Kwiatkowska

    Anna Akhmatova

14. 

    Liza Goddard

    English Humanist

15. 

    Murray Melvin

    Film Editor

16. 

    Robert Urquhart

    Journalist

17. 

    Chris Barrie

    Carnival Thin Man

18. 

    Frank Carson

    Carnival Fat Man

19. 

    Ed Bishop

    American Commentator

20. 

    Collin Hurst

    Stalin's Secretary

21. 

    Joyce Grundy

    Stalin's Mother

22. 

    Mark Thrippleton

    Young Stalin

23. 

    Robert Stephens

    Vsevolod Meyerhold

24. 

    Murray Melvin

    The Film Editor

25. 

    Jane Cox

    The Widow

26. 

    Julian Stanley

    Andre Gide

27. 

    David Sharpe

    Mandelstam

28. 

    Rowen Parr

    Galya (aged 39)

29. 

    Bronco McLoughlin

    Cossack

30. 

    Christopher Bramwell

    Vanya

31. 

    Marita Philips

    Madam Lupinskaya

32. 

    Mitzi Mueller

    The Nun

33. 

    Tracey Spence

    Tsvetayeva

34. 

    Andrew Brittain

    Malko

35. 

    Curly Carter

    Cross Eyed Man

36. 

    Rosemary Chamney

    Concierge

37. 

    Chris D'Bray

    Dorian Gray

38. 

    Val Elliott

    French Schoolmarm

39. 

    Peter Faulkner

    Mayakovsky