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Runtime | 0 minutes |
Genres | Drama |
Stars | August Diehl, Andrea Riseborough |
Directors | Thomas Kufus, Leszek Bodzak, Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham, Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey |
The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after his opera is condemned. A stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror, and for decades he has to weigh appeasing those in power in Soviet Russia against the integrity of his music.