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Stalin

  • TV Movie
  • 19921992
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 2h 52m
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7.0/10
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Stalin (1992)
BiographyCrimeDrama
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Iosif Stalin.The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Iosif Stalin.The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Iosif Stalin.
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
2.6K
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    • Ivan Passer
    • Paul Monash
  • Stars
    • Robert Duvall
    • Julia Ormond
    • Maximilian Schell
    • Ivan Passer
    • Paul Monash
  • Stars
    • Robert Duvall
    • Julia Ormond
    • Maximilian Schell
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 35User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    • Won 4 Primetime Emmys

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    Robert Duvall in Stalin (1992)
    Robert Duvall in Stalin (1992)
    Robert Duvall in Stalin (1992)
    Robert Duvall and Julia Ormond in Stalin (1992)
    Stalin (1992)
    Robert Duvall and Julia Ormond in Stalin (1992)
    Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Frank Finlay, Joan Plowright, and Joanna Roth in Stalin (1992)
    Robert Duvall in Stalin (1992)

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    Robert Duvall
    Robert Duvall
    • Stalin
    Julia Ormond
    Julia Ormond
    • Nadya
    Maximilian Schell
    Maximilian Schell
    • Lenin
    Jeroen Krabbé
    Jeroen Krabbé
    • Bukharin
    • (as Jeroen Krabbe)
    Joan Plowright
    Joan Plowright
    • Olga
    Frank Finlay
    Frank Finlay
    • Sergei
    Roshan Seth
    Roshan Seth
    • Beria
    Daniel Massey
    Daniel Massey
    • Trotsky
    András Bálint
    • Zinoviev
    • (as Andras Balint)
    John Bowe
    John Bowe
    • Voroshilov
    Jim Carter
    Jim Carter
    • Sergo
    Murray Ewan
    • Khrushchev
    Stella Gonet
    Stella Gonet
    • Zina
    Ravil Isyanov
    Ravil Isyanov
    • Yakov
    Colin Jeavons
    Colin Jeavons
    • Yagoda
    Miriam Margolyes
    Miriam Margolyes
    • Krupskaya
    Kevin McNally
    Kevin McNally
    • Kirov
    Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison
    • Molotov
      • Ivan Passer
      • Paul Monash
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      To prepare for the role, Robert Duvall watched numerous hours of newsreels, read many books about Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, and spoke to Russians who remembered him. He said that playing Stalin was the most challenging role of his career.
    • Goofs
      The same train car (MET46) is used several times.
    • Quotes

      Nikita Khrushchev: Have you thought about it? About what we said after Stalin dies?

      Vyacheslav Molotov: Like what?

      Nikita Khrushchev: His crimes?

      Vyacheslav Molotov: What crimes?

      Nikita Khrushchev: Millions...

      Vyacheslav Molotov: Nikita, you are too emotional. You talk too much. Who are we to judge Stalin. Before him we were a weak, backward country, Now look at us. We control half of Europe... the whole of China... We have the atomic bomb... We command respect. Without Stalin, it would have take twenty years longer.

      Nikita Khrushchev: I don't believe it. Without the purges, the arrests, the killings... without Stalin, we could have been a great country.

      Vyacheslav Molotov: Our history required Stalin.

    • Connections
      Featured in The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      The Swan
      from "Carnival of the Animals"

      by Camille Saint-Saëns

      Used as background music for archive footage

    User reviews35

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    8/10
    Historical Accuracy
    I re-watched this film in order to put faces to the names, as I was studying for a Soviet History midterm. In terms of the film's accuracy, it is largly excellent (from what I have read). However, the tendency of the film to separate the good guys (e.g., Bucharin) from the bad (es.g., Stalin, Beria, Ezhov) is not great historiography, but makes the film easier to digest.

    It is hard to know what effect the death of Stalin's wife had on him. Clearly the film needed an overarching plot structure to attempt an explanation of a complex man. Unfortunately, it is impossible to get inside Stalin's head. Duvall's performance is masterful, I think, because he manages to capture the LACK of essence of Stalin. If anything, the man was driven by hatred and little else--a hatred that is difficult to articulate, but which was at least admirably displayed in the film.
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    • jpfri
    • Nov 10, 1998

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    • Release date
      • November 21, 1992 (United States)
      • Russia
      • Hungary
      • United States
      • MGM
      • English
    • Also known as
    • Filming locations
      • The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
    • Production companies
      • HBO Films
      • Mark Carliner Productions
      • Magyar Televízió Müvelödési Föszerkesztöség (MTV) (I)
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    • 2 hours 52 minutes
      • Color

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