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Stalin: Man of Steel

Stalin: Man of Steel

2003•1h 30m
DocumentaryHistory

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.

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Production

History, Discovery

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

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

Lev Razgon

Self

Leonid Zamyatin

Self

Edvard Radzinsky

Edvard Radzinsky

Self

Alexander Burdonsky

Alexander Burdonsky

Self

Dmitry Likhachev

Dmitry Likhachev

Self

Olga Trifonova

Self

Genrikh Yagoda

Genrikh Yagoda

Self (archive footage)

Nathan Steinberger

Self

Boris Efimov

Boris Efimov

Self

Sergei Khrushchev

Self

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

Self (archive footage)

Dantsig Baldaev

Self

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Alexander Yakovlev

Alexander Yakovlev

Self

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Self (archive footage)

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