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Stalin: Man of Steel

Stalin: Man of Steel

2003-01-01 90 Min 0

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Stalin: Man of Steel

Director

Peter Adler Alexander Berkel Stefan Brauburger Oliver Halmburger Ralf Piechowiak
Edward Herrmann
Edward Herrmann
Narrator (voice)
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Lev Kopelev
Lev Kopelev
Self
Dodo Chichinadze
Dodo Chichinadze
Self
No Image
Lev Razgon
Self
No Image
Leonid Zamyatin
Self
No Image
Edvard Radzinsky
Self
Alexander Burdonsky
Alexander Burdonsky
Self
Dmitry Likhachev
Dmitry Likhachev
Self
No Image
Olga Trifonova
Self
Genrikh Yagoda
Genrikh Yagoda
Self (archive footage)