Stalin

Biography, Crime, Drama

The film portrays the political career and personal life of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Georgian-born Josef Djughashvili, who later adopted the name Joseph Stalin, demonstrating his rule and how he was able to bring the Soviet Union to a place of great power on the world stage, but at a consequence: in this case, the destruction of his family as well as the mass murder of millions of his own Russian Revolutionary partners, and ultimately his acts of corruption in the Communist Party.

The focus is on the behaviour of Stalin and the after effects. The story is as narrated by Stalin's daughter Svetlana, who defected to the United States in 1967.

Directed by: Ivan Passer
Starring: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Joan Plowright, Jeroen Krabbé
Written by: Paul Monash
Producer: Mark Carliner

Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Editor: Peter Davies
Theme music composer: Stanislas Syrewicz

Distributor: HBO, MGM Television (US), Warner Bros. Television (International)
Production company: HBO Pictures
Release: Original network HBO
Production location: Moscow, Budapest

Country of origin: United States
Original language: English
Original release: November 21, 1992

Cast

Robert Duvall as Joseph Stalin
Julia Ormond as Nadezhda Alliluyeva
Maximilian Schell as Vladimir Lenin
Jeroen Krabbé as Nikolai Bukharin
Joan Plowright as Olga Alliluyeva
Frank Finlay as Sergei Alliluyev
Daniel Massey as Leon Trotsky
András Bálint as Grigory Zinoviev
Emil Wolk as Lev Kamenev
Roshan Seth as Lavrentiy Beria
Mátyás Usztics as Nikolai Yezhov
John Bowe as Kliment Voroshilov
Jim Carter as Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Murray Ewan as Nikita Khrushchev
Stella Gonet as Zinaida Pavlutskaya Ordzhonikidze
Elena Seropova as Nino Beria
Colin Jeavons as Genrikh Yagoda
Miriam Margolyes as Nadezhda Krupskaya
Kevin McNally as Sergey Kirov
Clive Merrison as Vyacheslav Molotov
Lisa Orgolini as Anya Larina
Joanna Roth as Svetlana Alliluyeva
Aleksandr Feklistov as Leonid Nikolaev

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