Backdrop

Suuri vaino

IMDb 9.0 2026 β€’ min β€’ DocumentaryWar & Politics

Director

Toni Viljanmaa

Country

FI

Plot Summary

The Great Purge orchastrated in the Soviet Union during 1937-38 cost almost 700 000 lives. Especially ethnic minorities were targeted. Four-part documentary tells the story of what happened to the people living the Soviet Union, and how the terror was built in the red dictatorship.

Top Cast

Mikhail Gylling
Mikhail Gylling Self - Medical Doctor
Nikolaj Iwanow
Nikolaj Iwanow Self - Professor of History, University of Opole
Aleksi Mainio
Aleksi Mainio Self - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges
Kimmo Rentola
Kimmo Rentola Self - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki
Anni Reuter
Anni Reuter Self - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki