Stalin's Last Plot

The story

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.

Cast

P Patrick FloersheimNarrator (voice) J Jonathan BrentSelf - Historian J Joseph StalinSelf (archive footage) V Vyacheslav MolotovSelf (archive footage) N Natalya RapoportSelf - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport G Gennady KostyrchenkoSelf - Historian Y Yakov EtinguerSelf - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer N Nikita PetrovSelf - Historian L Lavrentiy BeriaSelf (archive footage) G Georgi MalenkovSelf (archive footage) I Igor PrelinSelf - Former KGB colonel S Solomon MikhoelsSelf (archive footage)

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N Natalia MikhoelsSelf - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels N Nina MikhoelsSelf - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels V Vladimir VinogradovSelf (archive footage) L Lyubov VovsiSelf - Daughter of doctor Miron Vovsi M Miron VovsiSelf (archive footage) L Leonid KoganSelf - Son of doctor Boris Kogan R Rudolf SlánskýSelf (archive footage) L Leonid MlechinSelf - Journalist