I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

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.

Cast

Joseph Stalin

Fyodor F. Feodorovsky

Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Stalin's 2nd wife

Alexey Rybin

Stalin's bodyguard

Crew

Semyon Aranovich

Director

Galina Gorvonsova

Sound

Yuri Klepikov

Writer

Semyon Aranovich

Writer

Aleksandr Knaifel

Original Music Composer

Sergey Sidorov

Director of Photography