I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

1h 18m
Documentary
5

This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal bodyguard of Joseph Stalin, Alexey Robin, who began working for the dictator in the 1930s.

Cast

Joseph Stalin
Unknown
Fyodor F. Feodorovsky
Unknown
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
Stalin's 2nd wife
Alexey Rybin
Stalin's bodyguard

Crew

Semyon Aranovich
Director, Writer
Yuri Klepikov
Writer
Sergey Sidorov
Director of Photography
Galina Gorvonsova
Sound
Aleksandr Knaifel
Original Music Composer

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