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Stalin's Last Plot

Stalin's Last Plot

2011•8.0/10
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

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8.0/10(3)

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.

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Production

Roche Productions, France Télévisions, Planète+, DR, ERT, SBS, SVT, YLE, Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), Alma Films

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

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)

Natalya Rapoport

Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport

Gennady Kostyrchenko

Self - Historian

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)

Igor Prelin

Self - Former KGB colonel

Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels

Self (archive footage)

Natalia Mikhoels

Self - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels

Nina Mikhoels

Self - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels

Vladimir Vinogradov

Self (archive footage)

Lyubov Vovsi

Self - Daughter of doctor Miron Vovsi

Miron Vovsi

Self (archive footage)

Leonid Kogan

Self - Son of doctor Boris Kogan

Rudolf Slánský

Rudolf Slánský

Self (archive footage)

Leonid Mlechin

Leonid Mlechin

Self - Journalist

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