The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin

5.7 1997 77 min
Documentary

A 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…

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Larry Weinstein
Writer
Gemma van Zeventer

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Dmitri Shostakovich (archival footage)
Valery Gergiev Self, conductor

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