Stalin: Man of Steel

IMDb 0.0 2003 • 90 min • DocumentaryHistory

Director

Peter Adler

Country

Plot Summary

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.

Top 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