The Noise of Time
movie
View on VideBits →The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after his opera is condemned. A stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror, and for decades he has to weigh appeasing those in power in Soviet Russia against the integrity of his music.
Cast & crew
Christopher Hampton · August Diehl · Andrea Riseborough · Jan Komasa · Julian Barnes