π Overview:
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.
π Languages Available:
English
,
Russian
π Date Released:
2003-01-01
β Running Time:
90 mins
β Vote Average:
0.0
Beloved Cast
Narrator (voice)
Edward Herrmann
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self
Lev Kopelev
Self
Dodo Chichinadze
Self
Lev Razgon
Self
Leonid Zamyatin
Self
Edvard Radzinsky
Self
Alexander Burdonsky
Self
Dmitry Likhachev
Self
Olga Trifonova
Self (archive footage)
Genrikh Yagoda
Self
Nathan Steinberger
Self
Boris Efimov
Self
Sergei Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Leon Trotsky
Self
Dantsig Baldaev
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self
Alexander Yakovlev
Self (archive footage)
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self
Wolfgang Leonhard
Self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov
Self
Vladimir Naumov
Self (archive footage)
Georgi Zhukov
Self
Vladlen Anchishkin
Self
Philipp von Boeselager
Self
Nikolai Baibakov
Self (archive footage)
Friedrich Paulus
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Ivan Konev
