Stalin: Man of Steel

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.

Directed by Peter Adler, Stefan Brauburger, Oliver Halmburger, Alexander Berkel, Ralf Piechowiak

Top cast

Edward Herrmann

Narrator (voice)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Lev Kopelev

Self

Dodo Chichinadze

Self

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Lev Razgon

Self

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Leonid Zamyatin

Self

Edvard Radzinsky

Self

Alexander Burdonsky

Self

Dmitry Likhachev

Self

O

Olga Trifonova

Self

Genrikh Yagoda

Self (archive footage)

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Nathan Steinberger

Self

Boris Efimov

Self

S

Sergei Khrushchev

Self

Leon Trotsky

Self (archive footage)

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Dantsig Baldaev

Self

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Alexander Yakovlev

Self

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Self (archive footage)

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