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Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Valery Gergiev | ... | Himself - Conductor "Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9" and "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk District" / Interviewee / Pianist "Rayok" |
| Netherlands Radio Philharmonic | ... | Themselves - Orchestra "Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9" |
| Flora Litvinova | ... | Herself - Friend |
| Graham Haley | ... | Voice of Shostakovich (voice) |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Dmitri Tolstoy | ... | Himself - Composer |
| Joseph Stalin | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Bulat Minzhilkiev | ... | Boris - Opera "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk District" / Himself - Baritone "Rayok" |
| Irina Loskutova | ... | Katerina - Opera "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk District" |
| The Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre | ... | Themselves - Orchestra (Opera "Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk District") |
| Karen Khachaturyan | ... | Himself - Composer (as Karen Khachaturian) |
| Abram Gozenpud | ... | Himself - Musicologist |
| Mariana Sabinina | ... | Herself - Musicologist |
| Mariya Konniskaya | ... | Herself - Friend |
| Natan Perelman | ... | Himself - Friend |
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The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin is all about one composer's (that would be Shostakovich) fight against a brutal regime (that would be Stalin). We've seen a lot of these types of movies before, heck some even current (most of them of course coming from China), but this topic never gets old. Communist Russia, for some odd strange reason, is fascinating to me, so this was especially interesting. Weinstein deftly handles the material using a wealth of stock footage not only of Shostakavich and Stalin, but of general scenes from Communist Russia (and best of all, from those old Communist manifesto musicals), and makes this film about classical music (usually a warning sign for me) passable.