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Stalin's Last Plot
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Stalin's Last Plot

2011-08-26 · Runtime unavailable · ★ 8.0

Documentary · History · TV Movie

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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Directors
Philippe Saada
Production companies
Roche Productions, France Télévisions, Planète+, DR, ERT, SBS, SVT, YLE, Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), Alma Films
Countries
Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Sweden
Status
Released

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Patrick FloersheimPatrick FloersheimNarrator (voice)
Jonathan BrentJonathan BrentSelf - Historian
Joseph StalinJoseph StalinSelf (archive footage)
Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav MolotovSelf (archive footage)
Natalya RapoportSelf - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport
Gennady KostyrchenkoSelf - Historian
Yakov EtinguerSelf - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer
Nikita PetrovNikita PetrovSelf - Historian
Lavrentiy BeriaLavrentiy BeriaSelf (archive footage)
Georgi MalenkovGeorgi MalenkovSelf (archive footage)
Igor PrelinSelf - Former KGB colonel
Solomon MikhoelsSolomon MikhoelsSelf (archive footage)
Natalia MikhoelsSelf - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels
Nina MikhoelsSelf - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels
Vladimir VinogradovSelf (archive footage)
Lyubov VovsiSelf - Daughter of doctor Miron Vovsi
Miron VovsiSelf (archive footage)
Leonid KoganSelf - Son of doctor Boris Kogan
Rudolf SlánskýRudolf SlánskýSelf (archive footage)
Leonid MlechinLeonid MlechinSelf - Journalist

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