I Was Stalin's Bodyguard
1989, Russian. Directed by Semyon Aranovich.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 December 1989
- Original title
- Я служил в охране Сталина, или Опыт документальной мифологии
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Yuri Klepikov, Semyon Aranovich
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Who directed I Was Stalin's Bodyguard?
I Was Stalin's Bodyguard (1989) was directed by Semyon Aranovich and stars Joseph Stalin, Fyodor F. Feodorovsky, Nadezhda Alliluyeva.