I Was Stalin's Bodyguard (1989)
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.
Director: Semyon Aranovich
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Joseph Stalin as |
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Fyodor F. Feodorovsky as |
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Nadezhda Alliluyeva as Stalin's 2nd wife |
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Alexey Rybin as Stalin's bodyguard |
| Directing | Semyon Aranovich | Director |
| Sound | Galina Gorvonsova | Sound |
| Writing | Yuri Klepikov | Writer |
| Writing | Semyon Aranovich | Writer |
| Sound | Aleksandr Knaifel | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Sergey Sidorov | Director of Photography |