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Stalin's Last Plot

Stalin's Last Plot

2011-08-26 0 Min 8

Synopsis

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.

Original Title

Le Dernier Complot de Staline

Director

Philippe Saada
Patrick Floersheim
Patrick Floersheim
Narrator (voice)
Jonathan Brent
Jonathan Brent
Self - Historian
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Molotov
Self (archive footage)
No Image
Natalya Rapoport
Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport
No Image
Gennady Kostyrchenko
Self - Historian
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Yakov Etinguer
Self - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer
Nikita Petrov
Nikita Petrov
Self - Historian
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Beria
Self (archive footage)
Georgi Malenkov
Georgi Malenkov
Self (archive footage)
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Igor Prelin
Self - Former KGB colonel
Solomon Mikhoels
Solomon Mikhoels
Self (archive footage)