The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997): Cast

A 1997 documentary about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich that concentrates on the crucial decade from 1936 to 1945, during which he wrote his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Symphonies. The film also briefly surveys other key works, notably the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, offering a portrait of his creative output in that era.

• LW Director Larry Weinstein

• DS Dmitri Shostakovich
• VG Valery Gergiev as themselves

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Also known as

• 战争交响曲：肖斯塔科维奇对抗斯大林