Stalin's Last Plot

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Philippe Saada

Writers

Philippe Saada

Language

French

Country

Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Sweden

Release date

26 August 2011

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Patrick Floersheim

  Narrator (voice)

• 

  Jonathan Brent

  Self - Historian

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  Joseph Stalin

  Self (archive footage)

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  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Self (archive footage)

• Natalya Rapoport

  Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport

• Gennady Kostyrchenko

  Self - Historian

• Yakov Etinguer

  Self - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer

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  Nikita Petrov

  Self - Historian

• 

  Lavrentiy Beria

  Self (archive footage)

• 

  Georgi Malenkov

  Self (archive footage)

• Igor Prelin

  Self - Former KGB colonel

• 

  Solomon Mikhoels

  Self (archive footage)