Character Relationship Map: Testimony

Characters

• Dmitri Shostakovich (played by Ben Kingsley) — protagonist
• Nina Shostakovich (played by Sherry Baines) — protagonist
• Galya Shostakovich (played by Magdalen Asquith) — supporting
• Maxim Shostakovich (played by Mark Asquith) — supporting
• Alexander Glazunov (played by Peter Woodthorpe) — supporting
• Joseph Stalin (played by Terence Rigby) — supporting
• Marshall Tukhachevsky (played by Ronald Pickup) — supporting
• Stalin's Mother (played by Joyce Grundy) — minor
• English Humanist (played by Liza Goddard) — minor
• Carnival Fat Man (played by Frank Carson) — minor
• Anna Akhmatova (played by Dorota Kwiatkowska) — minor
• American Commentator (played by Ed Bishop) — minor
• Film Editor (played by Murray Melvin) — minor
• Journalist (played by Robert Urquhart) — minor
• Carnival Thin Man (played by Chris Barrie) — minor
• Khatchaturyan (played by William Squire) — minor
• Stalin's Secretary (played by Collin Hurst) — minor
• Andre Zhdanov (played by John Shrapnel) — supporting
• Gargolovsky (played by Vernon Dobtcheff) — supporting
• Brutus (played by Robert Reynolds) — supporting

Story Analysis

Artistic survival under totalitarian oppression

Plot Progression

1. The Musical Prodigy
2. Artistic Survival
3. Legacy Beyond Politics