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    The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin

    The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin

    1997

    1:17:39

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    Genre

    Documentary

    Plot

    1997 documentary film about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It focuses on the period between 1936 and 1945, during which Shostakovich composed his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies, but also briefly discusses other works in the composer's oeuvre, such as his Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

    Director

    Larry Weinstein

    Writers

    Gemma van Zeventer,

    Stars

    Dmitri Shostakovich, Valery Gergiev,