The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.
- Won 4 Primetime Emmys
- 11 wins & 14 nominations total
- Bukharin
- (as Jeroen Krabbe)
- Zinoviev
- (as Andras Balint)
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- TriviaTo 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.
- GoofsThe 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993)
- SoundtracksThe Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
Written by Camille Saint-Saëns
Used as background music for archive footage
Stalin does a pretty decent job of showing the blindingly evil side of the man and still giving him a human feel. It makes him accessible.
So why could it have been better? Stalin was a revolutionary. He was active from the start and played a major role on the Bolshevik side. He was the Soviet premier and he forced a backwards nation to industrialize in a single generation and that is a global record in itself. He fought WWII and crippled the Nazi war machine at the battle of Kursk.
The movie should have been an epic. There is a much greater story to tell there. Instead it is tourniqueted. It is cut short and anyone with even a simple enough grasp of Stalin to vaguely know who he is gets the feeling that they are missing out.
They made Che, years later, into two epic films. A life as important--and evil--of Stalin deserved more than a made-for-TV movie despite the quality.
- generationofswine
- Dec 10, 2016
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- Сталин
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- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 52 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1