Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)
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.
- Released
- 2003-01-01
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Peter Adler, Stefan Brauburger, Oliver Halmburger, Alexander Berkel
Cast
- 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
- Lev Razgon as Self
- Leonid Zamyatin as Self
- Edvard Radzinsky as Self
- Alexander Burdonsky as Self
- Dmitry Likhachev as Self
- Olga Trifonova as Self
- Genrikh Yagoda as Self (archive footage)