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Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)
Directed by Peter Adler, Oliver Halmburger, Stefan Brauburger, Alexander Berkel, Ralf Piechowiak
Overview
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.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Edward Herrmann | Joseph Stalin | V.I. Lenin | Lev Kopelev | Dodo Chichinadze | Lev Razgon | Leonid Zamyatin | Edvard Radzinsky | Alexander Burdonsky | Dmitry Likhachev | Olga Trifonova | Genrikh Yagoda | Nathan Steinberger | Boris Efimov | Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev | Leon Trotsky | Dantsig Baldaev | Adolf Hitler | Alexander Yakovlev | Joachim von Ribbentrop | Wolfgang Leonhard | Vyacheslav Molotov | Vladimir Naumov | Georgi Zhukov | Vladlen Anchishkin | Philipp von Boeselager | Nikolai Baibakov | Friedrich Paulus | Winston Churchill | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Ivan Konev