Stalin's Last Plot

Aug 26, 2011

★ 8.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

Roche Productions

France Télévisions

Planète+

EPT

SBS

SVT

YLE

Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA)

Alma Films

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Patrick Floersheim

Self - Historian

Jonathan Brent

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Vyacheslav Molotov

Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport

Natalya Rapoport

Self - Historian

Gennady Kostyrchenko

Self - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer

Yakov Etinguer

Self - Historian

Nikita Petrov

Self (archive footage)

Lavrentiy Beria

Self (archive footage)

Georgi Malenkov

Self - Former KGB colonel

Igor Prelin

Self (archive footage)

Solomon Mikhoels

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