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I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

5.019891h 18mMovieDocumentary

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.

DirectorSemyon Aranovich
WritersYuri Klepikov·Semyon Aranovich

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Cast · Directed by Semyon Aranovich

JSJoseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
FF
Fyodor F. Feodorovsky
NANadezhda Alliluyeva
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
Stalin's 2nd wife
ARAlexey Rybin
Alexey Rybin
Stalin's bodyguard

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