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Apocalypse: Stalin

Apocalypse: Stalin

TV-142015•53m•7.4/10
DocumentaryWar & Politics

Ratings

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7.4/10(40)

The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.

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Production

France Télévisions Distribution, CC&C, France Télévisions

Language

FR

Status

Ended

First Aired

November 3, 2015

Last Aired

November 3, 2015

Networks

France 2

Created By

Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle

Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
Demon
E1
Demon
Air date: 2015-11-03
June 1941. Hitler has thrown himself into a fight to the death against Stalin. Two decades earlier, in 1917, Joseph Jughashvili from Georgia is a member of Lenin's Bolshevik Party, who has just seized power in Russia. The country is torn by civil war.
Red
E2
Red
Air date: 2015-11-03
1942. After blocking the Germans right outside of Moscow, Stalin now faces Hitler's second assault. The world's fate will be decided in Stalingrad. Like in Leningrad, men, women and children, plunged into hell, are sacrificed.
Master of the World
E3
Master of the World
Air date: 2015-11-03
In 1944, the Soviets find out about the horror of Hitler's extermination camps. Fifteen years earlier, Stalin transforms his country using any method he can.

Cast

Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz

Narrator (voice)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

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