Cámara

• Nicholas D. Knowland — director of photography

Producción

• Grahame Jennings — producer
• Michael Henry — producer
• Michael Kustow — producer
• Maureen Murray — associate producer
• Tony Palmer — producer

Sonido

• Zeljko Marasovich — music
• Zeljko Marasovich — original music composer
• John Lundsten — sound recordist

Guion

• David Rudkin — writer
• Solomon Volkov — book
• Tony Palmer — writer

Dirección

• Tony Palmer — director

Arte

• Tony Palmer — production design

Montaje

• Tony Palmer — editor

Reparto

• Ben Kingsley — Dmitri Shostakovich
• Sherry Baines — Nina Shostakovich
• Magdalen Asquith — Galya Shostakovich
• Mark Asquith — Maxim Shostakovich
• Terence Rigby — Joseph Stalin
• Ronald Pickup — Marshall Tukhachevsky
• John Shrapnel — Andre Zhdanov
• Robert Reynolds — Brutus
• Vernon Dobtcheff — Gargolovsky
• Brook Williams — H.G. Wells
• Peter Woodthorpe — Alexander Glazunov
• William Squire — Khatchaturyan
• Dorota Kwiatkowska — Anna Akhmatova
• Liza Goddard — English Humanist
• Murray Melvin — Film Editor
• Robert Urquhart — Journalist
• Chris Barrie — Carnival Thin Man
• Frank Carson — Carnival Fat Man
• Ed Bishop — American Commentator
• Collin Hurst — Stalin's Secretary
• Joyce Grundy — Stalin's Mother
• Mark Thrippleton — Young Stalin
• Robert Stephens — Vsevolod Meyerhold
• Murray Melvin — The Film Editor
• Jane Cox — The Widow
• Julian Stanley — Andre Gide
• David Sharpe — Mandelstam
• Rowen Parr — Galya (aged 39)
• Bronco McLoughlin — Cossack
• Christopher Bramwell — Vanya
• Marita Philips — Madam Lupinskaya
• Mitzi Mueller — The Nun
• Tracey Spence — Tsvetayeva
• Andrew Brittain — Malko
• Curly Carter — Cross Eyed Man
• Rosemary Chamney — Concierge
• Chris D'Bray — Dorian Gray
• Val Elliott — French Schoolmarm
• Peter Faulkner — Mayakovsky