Stalin: Man of Steel

January. 01,2003

Rating：

7.5

Genre：

History Documentary

Keywords：

Biography World War Ii Holocaust (shoah)

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Edward Herrmann as Narrator (voice)

Joseph Stalin as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin as Self (archive footage)

Lev Kopelev as Self

Dodo Chichinadze as Self

Alexander Burdonsky as Self

Dmitry Likhachev as Self

Boris Efimov as Self

Leon Trotsky as Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)

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