I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

1989•1h 18m•4.2/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.2/10(5)

This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal bodyguard of Joseph Stalin, Alexey Robin, who began working for the dictator in the 1930s.

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Production

Filmexport Studios, Panorama Studio

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Fyodor F. Feodorovsky

Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Stalin's 2nd wife

Alexey Rybin

Alexey Rybin

Stalin's bodyguard

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