Stalin: Man of Steel
2003•1h 30m•Released
DocumentaryHistory
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
Director
Peter Adler
Languages
English, Russian
Studio
History
Cast
Edward Herrmann
Narrator (voice)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Lev Kopelev
Self
Dodo Chichinadze
Self
Lev Razgon
Self
Leonid Zamyatin
Self
Edvard Radzinsky
Self
Alexander Burdonsky
Self
Dmitry Likhachev
Self
Olga Trifonova
Self
Genrikh Yagoda
Self (archive footage)
Nathan Steinberger
Self
Boris Efimov
Self
Sergei Khrushchev
Self
Production
Company
History
Company
Discovery
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