Stalin's Last Plot

Stalin's Last Plot

80% | Aug 26, 2011 | Documentary, History, TV Movie

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.

Featured Cast

Dudu Yitzhaki
Camera Operator
Gerard Alush
Sound

Cast

Narrator (voice)
Patrick Floersheim
Narrator (voice)
Self - Historian
Jonathan Brent
Self - Historian
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov
Self (archive footage)
Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport
Natalya Rapoport
Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport

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