Stalin (1992) - full transcript

Siberia, 1917

My father had been an exile to Siberia

for life.

But history was changing his sentence.

Russia was in its third year of a

bloody war against Germany.

The Tsar had lost so many men that he

needed even his enemies to fight for him.

But my father wasn't good enough.

Josef Visarionovich Djugashvili,

age 38,

born in Gori in the province

of Georgia.

Exiled to Siberia

for revolutionary activities.

Nevertheless, subject to conscription

into the imperial army.

Conscript has the following

deformities:

Left arm

two inches shorter than right arm.

Possibly a congenital defect.

Second and third toes of left foot:

webbed and joined.

The mark of the devil.

Rejected!

My father robbed banks to raise money

for the outlawed Bolshevik Party.

His favorite alias was Koba.

He hunted during the day and at night

he played cards with cut-throats

and thieves.

Our people were starving.

They blamed the Tsar.

And he was forced to abdicate.

The new government freed all

political prisoners.

And exiled revolutionaries like

my father were granted amnesty.

The rich and the nobility fled.

Koba was going home.

So was Lenin,

the leader of the Bolshevik party

- my father's idol.

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A Mark Carliner

Production

A film by

Ivan Passer

Robert Duvall

There's Lenin, Koba, Lenin!

- STALIN -

_________

Koba! Koba!

Julia Ormond

Sergei!

Most of the old friends were there -

like Sergei and Olga Alliluyev.

Olga!

- Oh, such a long time.

And... Nadya.

Little Nadya!

Hey! Why aren't you there with them?

I'll see him tomorrow.

Nadya was to become my mother.

Olga, what the... she's a woman!

Not yet... Not Yet!

Comrades! Soldiers, Workers, Sailors!

I thank you

for the overthrowing the Tsar.

But the Great War still continues.

Did you overthrow the Tsar

to continue his bloody war?

No-o-o!

Did you overthrow the Tsar so

the peasants would remain landless?

No-o-o!

Did you overthrow the Tsar so

the workers and their families

would continue to starve?

No-o-o!

The people demand peace!

Now!

The people demand bread.

Now!

The people demand land.

Now!

Towards the unfinished revolution!

The proletarian revolution!

It took the Bolshevik six more months

to finish the revolution

and set up the communist government.

No-one was allowed to own anything.

The Tsar and his family were executed.

And a new war broke out.

Civil war.

Casting by

Joyce Nettles

Music by

Stanislas Syrewicz

Edited by

Peter Davies

Koba's favorite song.

Let's play that.

You remember?

I've remembered everything

you've told me about him.

And I remember how he saved my life

when I was drowning in the Black Sea.

You were not drowning,

you were playing in the water...

he waded in picked you up

and he brought you back to us.

I was chocking water and he swam

to save me.

You were three years old!

- I remember!

Line producer

Don West

"Black Swallow. "

- Nadya's record.

She's how old now?

- Seventeen. That dedicated.

She could discuss theory with Lenin.

- That I like to hear.

Written by

Paul Monash

So Koba...

- No... Stalin.

Stalin?

- My new name.

Steel?

- Steel.

But for you old friend,

and friends and comrades like you

I'm always Koba.

To Stalin!

- No. To Lenin!

Directed by

Ivan Passer

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Nadya became one of

Lenin's secretaries.

A year later she joined Stalin

who was sent to the southern front.

Just leave you take it to the

secretariat - was that your own idea?

What did you say? What?

With that civil war I said maybe

I could be more useful.

Useful... ?

Useful... ?!

Braided deep to Stalin.

For watching him,

reporting on him?

No, helping him.

So, that is - Stalin needs help;

Stalin needs help

from a nineteen-year-girl?

To assist you, to take notes.

- Who for?

Who taught you to watch Stalin?

Who?

Was it Trotsky? Or Lenin?

Nadya thought

Stalin was going to change Russia.

She was right.

Do you have a notebook? Not yet

- take this. And the pencil here.

Ready?

- Yes.

Write!

In this compartment Stalin told me

he would do anything and everything

to stabilize the southern front.

He would take measures -

stern measures.

But... they said that you were only

to collect grain...

not get involved

in military activities.

Stalin does not obey orders

unless he agrees with them.

You always become the leader.

- Not always, not.

Yes!

Always my father says.

You want things your way

and you get them.

What else does he say?

You're a hero.

You organized daring robberies,

escapes from prisons.

You are a giant among pigmies.

I am a small humble man,

the son of a cobbler

and an illiterate washer woman.

The rose bud opens,

blue bows all around...

The larch flew higher,

the nightingale sings so fine...

{ I was fifteen... }

Look at you - an army commander!

Look at you,

commissar of nationalities.

Chosen by Lenin himself.

Klim Voroshilov,

this is Nadya Alliluyeva,

Sergei's daughter.

You have your mother's eyes.

A Bolshevik aristocrat, ha?!

Filipov. Kavelenko. Tsarist officers.

- Yes.

Do you trust them?

Trotsky does, do you?

- Trotsky is a war commissar,

and he's the commander

of the Red Army.

You disagree with Trotsky or not?

Not exactly!

Good!

Then you agree to the need

for vigilance?

Yes, absolutely! Resolute vigilance!

Here's a list of unreliable officers.

I want them to be summoned here

immediately.

Trotsky should be informed.

- Trotsky does not understand!

We do.

All the officers on your list

are here,

as you requested, Koba!

Why? What's the reason?

Because I fought for you, bastards!

This barge was not sunk, Klim.

Be very careful.

They'll all be lost.

Be very, very careful.

"24 former Tsarist officers

suspected of treason

have drowned...

Unfortunate accident.

Replacing them with reliable elements. "

No, that's murder!

Murder, murder...

He says - an accident.

The officers were being held

on a barge, and the barge sank.

And who put them on the barge?

Irreplaceable professional officers...

And who killed them?

Stalin!

I demand his immediate recall!

Stalin is a trusted comrade.

Replace him, or I resign.

With Trotsky or Stalin.

Trotsky or Stalin?

You don't understand -

it must be Trotsky AND Stalin.

We need you BOTH!

Trotsky never forgave my father.

They avoided each other. Even when

living in the Kremlin apartments

with the rest of the party leaders.

The Kremlin

April 1919

It was there

my parents celebrated their wedding.

Look! You're still so young!

You were younger than me

when you ran away with papa.

So I was but you should've seen

your papa:

He was so handsome!

An idealistic young revolutionary.

Exactly like Koba.

No, Koba's not like your papa.

You think he's too old?

He's a Georgian. I know Georgian men.

But you?!

I know: you don't approve.

But I want to be with him.

Feel happy for me.

For us.

Nadya, Nadya. Nadenka.

Koba is... here looking for you.

She isn't that far away!

Joy, eternal joy!

So mashed, though.

Our revolution is so young

you both triumph.

Nikolai, always an optimist.

- Yes, yes!

An inclination to look on the brite

side of things...

somethig you want I share.

French champagne,

liberated from prince Volkonsky cell.

Nikolai, you do the honors!

- Gregory Zinoviev.

Nadya.

- Grisha.

Unfortunately we couldn't liberate

Volkonsky's crystal...

Smashed!

To life!

- To life!

Where're you going?

- Trotsky...

Kamenev and Zinoviev

were intellectuals.

My father didn't have their education

or their manners.

They looked down on him

and he knew it.

They were on Trotsky's side.

Trotsky was the son

of a prosperous land owner

who'd enjoyed all the

privileges of wealth

and was looked upon

by many as Lenin's era -

apparent.

French novel?

There's a better story

in Bucharin's apartment.

"The mountaineer" and Nadya Alliluyeva

have got married.

How was it you weren't invited?

Anything else?

- No.

Go right into the secretariat.

Just the same,

you come to work tomorrow.

The revolution demands it!

She'll be there. But not early.

The Kremlin

April 1922

My mother was very much the new

soviet woman:

she continued to work even after

she was pregnant.

Comrades.

Are you going to stop making history

because

no-one is here to record it?

Don't worry.

It won't be written anyway.

Comrades, we have

an one-point agenda today:

the secretariat -

how can we improve its work?

What's wrong with its work?

It's function is growing faster

than its structure.

It's the practical problem of

party organization:

dues, assignment of

personal membership...

its those that put devils on the secretariat

that have to deal with these things.

All we have at ease

is on the Politburo.

All we have to do is Think.

I think we should assign one of

ourselves to the secretariat...

As a...

General Secretary.

That way we have

a direct organizational link.

What about you, comrade Trotsky?

Don't settle me with that job.

Settle a mule. Settle Stalin.

Please, please! No personal remarks.

Comrade Zinoviev? Are you interested?

I nominee Stalin.

- Stalin.

Yes, Stalin.

You accept, comrade Stalin?

If no-one would do it, I would do it.

Yes. Thank you very much.

May I change the subject, comrade Lenin?

- Please do!

The wars are behind us,

we're in a new period now.

The police are supposed

to be accountable.

But they still do what they like;

they still terrorize people.

True!

- I think comrade Bukharin is right.

No brutality should be allowed.

Although, there's

no revolution possible

without terror.

What're you drawing there?

A little drawing.

They handed all this power, Sergo.

Control of all the levers!

They not even know what they're doing,

stupid bastards!

Trotsky: Trotsky turns it down,

king of the Jews turns it down.

You know what they've given me -

a reward for doing the job... ?

A country house.

You know who'd belonged to the house?

Zuvalov.

- Zubalov?

The bastard we organized

the strike against.

And Trotsky turns it down...

How is she?

She - all right?

Men!

How would you like to go back

to Georgia, Sergo?

They knock a new hedge together.

- Whose?

Some of our old friends down there...

they're running the place

as though they own it.

They need a real kick in their ass!

So, will you go. You'll go.

All you need - a good pair of boots.

Feel there! Go ahead, feel it, nice!

I could have been making these

if my father had his way.

But was I nine.

He took me down to Tbilisi

to make me work in a boot factory;

wanted me to be a cobbler like him.

I ran away, came home -

nine years old.

He beat the shit out of me.

Beat the shit out of me.

But! I've never made a boot

for anyone.

No. I won.

And you know to wrest in them, Sergo?

When you wear boots

you kick the man in their head.

And you never find his teeth.

Wear boots, Sergo. Wear boots.

A healthy boy!

There's a boy.

Vasily. We'll call you Vasily.

Koba! Where's Koba? Where's he?

What is the matter?

Koba!

Koba! It's Lenin:

Lenin has had a stroke.

May I talk to him?

Since when do you ask permission?

Vladimir Ilyich!

Who authorized you to send this telegraph?

- What?

To Sergo Ordzhonikidze:

"Of the General Secretary"?

Who's made the copy?

"You will thoroughly punish

the following members

of the Georgian central committee:... "

Where did you get that?

I know they got into an argument

but he slapped the man.

A leading comrade - he struck him!

The man insulted Sergo!

A party member does not strike

a party member!

It is not permissible!

You're in pain?

No-no, it's nothing. It's nothing.

You will order Sergo to apologize.

He's a Georgian. He... he's...

I'm referring this

to the control commission!

Who gave you this telegram? Who, who?

Who told you this?

Just order Sergo to come back.

Immediately!

Comrade...

- Immediately!

What they are doing these boys?

They want to turn you against me;

they want to split the party.

The doctors have told you to rest,

to remain calm, calm.

Now why do they excite you,

these bastards, why?

To kill you, that's the reason!

We will not allow this;

I've one aim, one mission:

to get comrade Lenin back on his feet.

And able to lead us again.

I'll send for the doctors.

The job nobody wanted put my father

in charge

of the party security.

He surrounded himself with ruthless men

and pecked for their loyalty to him.

Kaganovich was one of them.

Natasha is at Lenin switch-board.

We will know about everyone who calls.

Who set this up?

- I myself!

Who else knows about it?

- No-one.

Make sure!

You know Koba, while Lenin is ill...

- The country needs a leadership.

And Trotsky, of course,

is ready to provide one.

Lenin knows so, of course, and he will

never listen to anyone else's opinion.

Yours especially!

- Not even ours.

We have been thinking: until Lenin

can return...

Restored health and vigorous, enabled

to deal with all our terrible problems...

We could lead.

- In the spirit of Lenin, of course!

We?

- Comrades Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev.

How many legs does a stool have?

Why?...

- Three.

Because it cannot stand on one or two.

- Good, good! - Good!

What are they plotting now?

- Let them take me for a fool.

Trotsky!

Comrade Trotsky, Lenin wants to see you.

- Good.

He says you must turn against Stalin

before it is too late.

You must help Lenin now!

- It's good. Tomorrow.

Where's he?

- He's not to be disturbed!

How're you doing?

I'm just reading...

I'm reading my essays from 1903.

They came out again.

It's very interesting to see it now

how stupid we were at that time.

Is those officials?

Yes. I'm reading official reports.

The doctors have...

I'm responsible to you -

they're, too, won't you see?

Organizationally - yes,

but medically...

It's you they worry about.

They do not want you burdened.

Burdened?

Is it a burden to reed newspapers?

To even talk politics?

A newspaper?

Yes. Real newspapers,

not the kind you have printed for me:

one single copy for Lenin,

single copies full of good news.

What a waste of money

just to keep me out of politics!

It's to help your recovery.

No, to keep me out of politics.

- No.

So, ... I'm not to know

what's going on in our country.

I'm forbidden to read

our own newspapers.

Let's comrade Lenin read

your fairy-tales.

What nonsense, what Damn... nonsense!

No, it?s to speed your recovery,

we need your recovery.

We need comrade Lenin's leadership.

How can comrade Lenin lead,

if he's denied information?

Politics... doctors ordered...

Doctors orders?

Not Stalin's orders?

- No.

The situation in Georgia,

you are a Georgian, you... you...

There's nothing to worry about...

we need your health.

The re... rev... The rev... v-v-v...

Why did you call Trotsky, you stupid

bitch! Didn't you think I would know?

He's not to meet with Trotsky

or anybody!

What're you trying to do,

to kill him? Bitch!

January 21, 1924

Lenin's dead!

My father understood how much

the Russian soul craved the God.

Now that religion was illegal,

it was his idea to embalm Lenin

and have him placed on

a permanent display in Red Square.

Comrade Molotov,

where's comrade Trotsky?

You were instructed to...

to find him and bring him here.

What happened?

I did reach him. I...

I told him the funeral was yesterday.

He was too far away to make it

yesterday.

You lied to him, why?

You told me.

You didn't want to have him here.

You were to admit that to no-one -

true or false?

True.

Then why are you telling it to me?

You're a real idiot, Molotov.

You will go far...

Leaving us,

comrade Lenin has ordered us to

hold high and keep pure...

the great calling of our party.

Leaving us,

comrade Lenin is enjoining those

who keep the unity of our party!

Together we vow

to keep the honorable commandment,

comrade Lenin!

We had an argument this morning.

About what?

- Nikolai.

Bukharin? But he likes Bukharin?!

Nikolai offered me a job

on a new publication:

"Revolution and culture. "

Josef says: "The next thing would be

spending all your time

with Bukharin's bunch of bohemians,

useless poets, artists. "

And you said they're not useless.

- I said they're far from useless.

That the revolution needs culture.

- Exactly.

Then I put my arms around him

and then he apologized.

Then you made love?

It's this so terrible business of

Lenin's death.

What's going to happen now,

who's going to lead?

Josef says there's sneaking

behind his back, conspiring...

Who?

I'm to get started, Zina.

Da.

Da!

Beautiful flowers.

Their life is too short.

What is it?

The telephone called - another letter...

- What letter?

A letter, that Lenin sent

to the central committee

to be opened after his death.

What does it say?

You know nothing about?

No, nothing.

You worked to Lenin.

You were close to him.

You heard no-one talking about it?

No.

You, sneak!

I know nothing about it.

Josef!

They got it to the bitch Krupskaya.

Trotsky.

Yes: Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev...

The three little weasels!

Don't say that!

Mice.

But the Georgian cat can make a deal

with them and then...

Comrade Lenin also wrote:

"Stalin is too rude

and his fault becomes intolerable

in one who holds the office of

General Secretary.

Therefore, I propose to the comrades

to consider a means of removing

Stalin from the post

and appointing another person:

more patient, more loyal,

more attentive... "

No!...

- I'm the less...

No! Trotsky...

- Let Trotsky speak...

This is the end of Stalin...

Let Trotsky speak...

Talk to them! You're the only one

who can rid us of Stalin.

Let's Zinoviev deliver the blow.

Please, please!

For all of us Lenin's words

have special meaning in a way.

But in the long period

when comrade Lenin was unable to lead

it fell upon us:

comrades Kamenev, Zinoviev and Stalin -

to provide collective leadership.

Our experience makes me happy to say

that comrade Lenin's apprehensions

are not well-founded.

So, I propose to maintain

Stalin in his post.

This is an outrage!

Lenin was ill.

- Comrade Zinoviev, ...

Lenin was right!

- We should listen to Lenin!

Let's Trotsky speak!

Let us agree that

Lenin did write those words...

He betrayed you!

Yes, comrades, I am rude to those

who wreaked and split the party

and I have never conceal this

and I DO not conceal it now.

Not to be gentle is better than...

it is not really to be like...

Krupskaya.

I am not free to desert my post.

Twice!

Twice I try to resign

and twice I was told

to remain at my post.

I obey the party. It is my obligation

that I remain at my post.

Trotsky wasted his last chance

to stop my father.

He underestimated the man who he called:

"The Mule" and "The Mountaineer. "

I'm Yakov.

Your son.

- I know.

Why do you come here?

- He's come to Moscow, to study.

It's... it's better here than Tbilisi -

to the schools, I mean.

What you're asking me:

you think you can just walk in here?

Get out! Go! Out! Go!

- I've given your son our spare room.

No, no! You... don't worry.

He'll be all-right.

Why, Josef? Why?

You never even told me you had a son,

why?

When his mother died he was two months

old - you haven't seen him since, why?

Did you hate her?

- No.

Have you loved her?

- She was a young Georgian woman,

uneducated, religious.

- How far you didn't love her?

She was young, I was young...

- You've never even talked about her!

She's dead, Nadya.

- Oh! The door is shut, the room is sealed!?

And you never thought about her?

- Dead is dead.

And if I die?

Don't say that.

- If I die would you abandon Vasily?

I didn't abandon Yakov;

I left him with his sisters.

Who would you leave Vasily with?

Want you other child?

What other child?

The one I'm caring, I'm pregnant!

You are pregnant; you - pregnant?

Why didn't you tell me, why?

- I made sure today.

Let Yakov stay!

Josef.

Josef!

Look at them conspiring.

They play Trotsky against me and me

against Trotsky.

They thing they'll climb upon top.

I'll strike first.

Comrades, who do you thing

is shipping off?

It's Trotsky, Lenin's friend!

My father! Comrades, stop them!

No! It's Trotsky, Lenin's friend!

He is my father! I can't believe this!

No! Don't take him! Why is taht?

No-o-o!

He fought against the imperial army...

In 1801 Alexander I outlawed

the use of torture.

"The very word "Torture", " he said,

"is a disgrace to human race. "

Disgrace.

I'm helping Yakov prepare

for his exams.

You agree with Alexander?

Your opinion, brilliant student!

You agree or not?

A little discussion.

Let us say that you are

an army commander:

It'll never happen, of course,

but let us say it...

They bring you a prisoner

who has vital information

that could save the lives of your...

your command...

He's stubborn, he... he won't talk.

He spits in your face.

What you would do, Yakov?

- I... I don't know.

You let your men die?

- No?

Yakov,

how do you save them, huh?

I...

Torture is wrong!

My son!?

And you're trying to...

to educate this hopeless idiot?

It's a... a copy of Lenin's testament,

er, as they call it.

Printed in large numbers by

a secret press in Leningrad.

"Stalin is too rude. "

And what a role does Zinoviev

play in this matter?

Zinoviev?

He's a party boss - do you thing this

could happen without his complicity?

I think he's on your side.

He supported you against Trotsky.

A temporary maneuver.

Sergo,

I think you could go to Leningrad.

May be you could persuade the comrades

there to get rid of Zinoviev.

Find a replacement...

a good communists,

attractive personality, ...

but... who, ... who could we get?

Kirov?

- Kirov.

You worded with him in the Caucasus?

-Yes, he really shoves things up.

A good man, people like him.

Reads books, likes music, ...

a well rounded fellow.

It's very good, Sergo, very good.

Why didn't I think of him? Very good.

Comrade Kirov!

- Comrade Kirov?

Good.

Comrades! Sergo!

What do you got?

What is this? What?

You killed it yourself, huh?

- A single shot.

How far?

- 10 meters.

No - wait, wait!

You stood 10 m away from this?

I don't believe that.

Who could do it, I mean,

Who could do it?

Could you do it, Iron Pants?|

Wouldn't be iron your pants, would it?

You're going to Leningrad

to replace Zinoviev.

Sergo's going, too, and Kaganovich.

I'm counting on you!

10 meters!

He shot this from 10 m, Yagoda.

10 meters! Who could believe that?

Don't you admire a man like that?

And watch him.

Go to Leningrad and keep an eye on them.

Especially, ... especially Kirov.

Yes.

January 1928

My parents, my brother Vasily and I were

on our way south to our winter home.

We stopped at station after station

so that my father could flex

the party muscle

for local officials

who have been summoned there

by regional party boss

Lavrenti Beria.

What is to be done?

The harvests have been good;

I could see the fields from the train.

But the grain is not being delivered,

why is that?

Is it because the peasants

have been told

they can, if they wait,

obtain better prices

and become richer at the expense of

everyone else?

Who, who's told them this, who?

Comrade Stalin, I'm not sure

you understand the situation:

the state offers low prices,

unreasonably low prices.

The state wants us, peasants,

to work for the benefit

of the people of the cities!

There's grumbling in my district!

Party officials

could do not understand our peasants

come to the villages threatened.

The peasants complain that when they sell

their grain they receive nothing in return.

There is nothing for them to buy.

I asked what is to be done

and did you give me answers - No!

Only complaints.

Did you give me a solution? No.

So I will give you mine:

You will demand the surrenders of all

stocks of grain at the existing prices.

Anyone who refuses,

you will confiscate his grain.

You will bring anyone

who opposes you to justice,

under article Number 107

of the criminal code,

which, I remind you, prescribes severe

punishment for any kind of speculation.

But comrade Stalin...

Those are your instructions. These measures

will be applied throughout the USSR.

Thank you for your ideas.

80 % of the Russian population

were farmers

who lived and worked remote

from party control.

For my father

this represented a real danger.

Those he could not control might later

become enemies.

What'll happen to us... ?

- Our children... ?

Don?t you understand...

- Comrade Beria, please...

Come on, come on. Go!

Come here! Come! Come.

Lavrenti Beria came to our house

for the firs time that year.

I would see him often.

He always frightened me.

He's a pervert.

- Beria?

Sergo knew him in Georgia.

Even before he became party boss.

He kidnapped this girl. He raped her.

He forced her to marry him.

He still rapes women. Young girls.

He's thriving around.

He sees someone. He says:

"Bring her in!"

And then he says: "If you don't want

something to happen to you

or your family... "

Sergo hates him.

Why doesn't he say something to Josef?

- He did.

And your husband said: "Mind

your own business!" Just like that.

I'll talk to him.

You're declaring war on the peasants!

Forcing them to give their own land...

and move on to state collective farms.

Already they're shooting their livestock;

they're eating their seed grain...

If you continue there will be a famine!

- Bukharin, you are too soft.

There are reports that some peasants

have already been shot.

Without trial. Thousands have been

sent off to labor-camps, why?

Do we have to starve the country

to feed the city?

The Politburo never agreed.

I know everyone's position.

But Lenin always said:

"In the party we discuss and we debate. "

Don't try to bring Lenin

into this, Bukharin. I know Lenin.

I'm going back to Moscow.

What will happen to Nikolai?

Josef allows no-one

to stand up to him.

As you know he forced Trotsky

into exile.

He doesn't forgive, he doesn't forget.

Zina, he trusts no-one,

not even Sergo.

My Sergo, his oldest friend?

Oh, you're imagining things.

He hates his own son, Yakov,

humiliates him. No!

The only people close to him

are his own creatures:

this evil pervert Beria

who is not coming here again.

Kaganovich, Molotov, Voroshilov -

those!

He loves you.

- Does he?

Yakov!

What happened?

- He wants to get married, I won't have it.

Why, who is she?

- She's Jewish.

So?

- So, you want him to marry a Jew, huh?

How can you say that? Huh?

How can you feel that?

Mammy!

- Get the doctor!

A flesh wound!

- The doctor! And get Vasily out!

An idiot! Can't even shoot him right!

My son!? He-he...

Yakov survived.

But my mother soul was wounded.

She'd... haven't enough of sleep.

Nadya!

What had she been doing in Leningrad?

I've left him.

No! Nadya!

Nadya, you don't understand...

YOU don't understand.

I do. Of course, I do.

He's... he's...

Do you want us to call him?

No... no...

Not yet, no...

You had an argument?

He is... suspicious of everyone...

vicious, cruel!

Well, he has some rough ways, Koba.

- He is not Koba, he's Stalin.

Of course, he is Stalin,

he has to be Stalin!

Why would Russia be

if he weren't Stalin?

He... he's been cruel to you?

But he's a good father? You've said

many times he loves his children.

He has... somebody else?

- No.

Not, of course not. He has burdens.

All the probles:

straddling the selfish elements,

wrecking in the industry, sabotages.

The country?s in crisis, he needs you!

But, Sergei!

- You can't desert your husband!

You're overtired.

You stay here a few days.

All-right. All-right, I'll call him.

I'll explain to him you're tired,

worn-out, ... distraught.

Oh, you need time, Nadya,

to think calm,

and carefully.

If you don't go back, ...

what is going to happen to you?

To all of us?

You are the wife of comrade Stalin.

You have his children.

Why don't you see? You are

not anymore an ordinary person.

He's probably worrying the worse...

He's to know where you are.

Hello, yes? Sergei.

It's your husband.

He wants to talk to you.

Koba, she's coming.

You're going to Moscow?

Tell comrade Stalin what is happening!

Tell him they have taken all:

our lands,

all food, our lives.

They send us away...

comrade Stalin doesn't know!

Tell him! Tell comrade Stalin!

Beria!

Don't dance with your life -

you get in the way.

She's a wonderful dancer you say.

You say! Tell her to show us.

Don't stop! Play, play!

Nadya! We'd be hoping you'd come.

So, you're back. Good, good.

I have a message for you.

My wife delivers messages.

From an old woman.

My wife delivers messages

from old women.

The train stopped at a station.

On one side there was a freight train.

Cars filled with people

being deported.

Bodies pitched out onto the rails...

One station! How many more are there!?

A woman ran to me,

begging me to tell Stalin,

"The Great Stalin" that people

were being starved to death.

If only the great Stalin knew

then he would save his people.

But YOU celebrate the 15-th

anniversary of the revolution

and comrade Stalin feeds his friends

while his people starve.

Is this what the revolution was for?

Play! Play!

I'd better go.

Nadya!

I loved him, Zina! I loved him!

He'll never forgive me.

He'll punish me, punishes everyone.

Perhaps you should go away for a while.

- Where, where can I away from Stalin go?

Where they join of others.

Know - to a camp.

Yes, he would send me to a camp!

No, he wouldn't do that.

- No, you think not?

I would talk to him.

No?

Be careful.

Protect yourself. I'll beg for you.

I will go away somewhere,

you were right.

I will go with you.

- No!

My friend, my dear friend.

I have to go away alone.

Have to go alone. Just go away.

You were right.

You knew.

You take care of everyone

while I am away. Huh?

I depend on you for this.

I love you.

Koba!

Koba!

Cover her.

He told me that Nadya left him

as it can't be.

That's why he didn't come

to the funeral?

My friend has buried his heart today.

His heart?

- He's berried his heart with a lie -

that come to me that

all she died of appendicitis.

Yes, he loved her. Yes, he killed her.

Yes, he is killing millions

on the country-side

and yes, our eyes are shut.

Who are we? What are we?

What are we now?

Why did you betray me? why?

My father called the famine

a fairy-tale.

And sold to other nations the grain

that would have saved his own people.

He used the money to industrialize

our nation of peasants.

The people were pushed day and night

to make themselves greater,

Russia greater, Stalin greater.

All I knew was that my mother had been

dead for two years and we missed her.

Wake up! Wake up, sleepy head!

Wake up, Wake up!

My little house-keeper is bringing me

tedious this afternoon. Why?

Grandma's taking me

to Nikolai's wedding.

Is that so. .

Sacha Vasiliyevna?

It's not only us that Hitler

is threatening, it's the world.

We need a new strategy;

we need to unite the word.

You're such an idealist, Bukharin.

Where's the bride? This is for the bride!

Anya Michaylovna,

for years I've been waiting for you

to be old enough to drink this.

Thank you, Uncle Sergei!

- And this, Nikolai's for you.

What?

What's that?

Oh! A fox!

I had this creature in the sites of my

gun but it looked straight in my eyes.

"There's a renaissance man" it said,

"You should take me as a present".

Tell the truth, Kirov,

you were scared to death.

You tell the truth:

how did you win this girl?

It was I who want him and it wasn't easy.

I pretended I was younger than he was.

So I want to make a toast now.

To Nikolai! My gentle,

open-hearted husband.

So believes in the goodness

of people because he is good.

To Nikolai!

Hum, another guest!

Bukharchick, congratulations!

You forgot! Forgot.

Congratulations!

Papa!

Did you think you would merry our

Nikolai, and Stalin not know about it?

Nikolai, Nikolai,

you've outgone me again.

We all love you, Nikolai.

Stalin loves him. Lenin loved him.

My dearest, dearest Nadya...

loved him.

Is that not so?

What a beautiful bride! And I wish

you both the greatest happiness!

Kirov. We need talk.

We'll send Yagoda's deputy

to Leningrad.

What for?

There're people that want to get you.

No, believe me, believe me.

Unsuspected ones...

trusted by you.

You have placed

one of your own men in Leningrad?

The central committee...

The central committee have,

without consulting me,

sent the man to NKVD in Leningrad?

He will be deputy...

to your man Medved.

Thank you, comrade Stalin.

I have to get back to Leningrad.

Kirov was a popular man.

People who had turned

against my father and his methods...

saw Kirov as their best hope

for salvation.

And my father knew.

Yes.

Yes. One moment, please.

It's Stalin!

This is Yagoda.

Yes, comrade Stalin!

That summer my father reorganized

state security.

And appointed Yagoda chief.

My father had many houses but the one

he lived in most was just outside Moscow.

It was a fortress

with walls and guards.

My father began to spend most

of his time behind these walls.

Charlie Chaplin Yagoda,

Charlie Chaplin.

Every film shown in Russia had to be

personally approved by my father.

He loved American films the most:

musicals, gangster movies, comedies.

Charlie Chaplin was his favorite.

Is the German material ready?

- Yes, Koba.

You go on, this one would not

interest you, Svetlana, go on.

Can you find your way back without me?

Oh, don't worry about papa, no... go!

Did you come to comrade Kirov last night?

A very popular man, isn?t he?

Yes.

In Moscow it's not as in Leningrad.

- Yes.

And Sergei is so - an exceptional leader,

always considerate and always...

decisive?

- Yes.

Do you not think he is aware of it?

- Aware of... what, comrade Stalin?

The conspiracy! To make him

General Secretary instead of me.

It's... hard to know, comrade Stalin.

It's your business to know.

Leningrad

December 1, 1934

In the car, comrade Kirov,

at least drove the curtains.

For safety.

- For safety, my friend, I have you.

Comrade Medved. NKVD.

You were in charge of

comrade's Kirov security?

Yes, comrade Stalin!

Comrade Nicolayev,

why did you kill comrade Kirov, why?

I, I, ...

- Don't lie!

You keep lying to comrade Stalin.

You didn't that alone, no.

But who helped you?

Co... comrade Yagoda.

No, no. No.

You never saw

comrade Yagoda before today.

You NEVER saw...

comrade Yagoda before today.

Is that true?

It was someone else, who approached you -

who would hate comrade Kirov?

One of Zinoviev's people, right?

But, you can't remember who. You need

help in remembering who.

We've arrested your wife, your mother, ...

Know you want them released, don't you?

We'll send you to a new place, new home,

new body-guard - to be very careful.

But... what am I... going...

to remember?

What you're told: Names, places, ...

everything you've forgotten.

Yes. Here, do you want.

Do you.

Get his confession and get rid of him,

Yezhov.

Come on, Grisha, come with me.

First, they told that Kirov was killed

by a personal enemy acting alone.

Now they say it was a conspiracy.

It probably was a conspiracy.

- But whose?

It's like the burning

of the Reichstag.

The Nazis' done it themselves

and blamed it on the RMS.

What are you saying?

Grisha!

Why won't he come to me?

- A fox has a mind of its own.

Even a red fox.

It was now a crime

to criticize my father or his policies.

It became treason.

Bukharin and my daughter

with his beautiful young wife.

And his fox.

He calls his fox Grisha,

your name, Zinoviev.

It's a common name.

Yes, of course.

But... admit that Bukharin...

named his fox after you.

Koba.

- Admit it.

Possibly, but he never told me.

- Admit It!

Yes.

- Yes, he named his fox after You.

Yes, Bukharin named his fox after me.

- Koba...

Is it... it's easy to tell the truth.

So, why do you keep lying

to comrades Yagoda and Yezhov?

Are they're being too kind to you?

Koba, let me tell you from experience

we shared,

that Tsar's police were gentle

compared to these...

And where is the Tsar now?

- Koba, you know us.

We were side-by-side, side-by-side

always trough the old regime.

We are still side-by-side

together with you.

Under the inspired leadership

of Lenin and Stalin.

How can you even believe that we

are going to conspire with com...

with Trotsky to kill... comrade Kirov?

Traitors!

This... these tell that

comrades Zinoviev and Kamenev

went along with Trotsky...

How did you come by these "confessions"?

How are they obtained?

We can't tell you, Koba.

- Perhaps they don't understand the law.

Measures against crime, among minors:

Children of 12 and over are subject

to all measures of criminal punishment

including...

Including death.

Yes, including death.

Tell comrade Kamenev about

the evidence against his son.

You son has been on look-out... near

comrade Stalin new dacha outside Moscow.

Preparing an attempt on Stalin's life.

Impossible! He is only fourteen!

Evidence.

- Fabrications!

Evidence!

- My son would never...

How can you ask us to say

that we scheme with Hitlerites.

Who would believe that?

Anyone who hears and reads confessions.

And everyone in the world

who hear and read and believe.

Shoot them.

They must be SHOT!

Shed the blood of old comrades;

is that what you want, Yezhov... ?

If we agree: you promise that

no-other old comrades be executed.

Their families will not be harmed?

- The families, that's important.

And our lives, too?

Of course,

all that goes without saying.

Koba!

They've lied to us! They lied to us!

They promised we would not be killed.

This, our families... he said our families

would not be hurt... he promised it,

he said it that if we confessed we

would not be killed... he promised it...

We were promised our lives

if we confessed.

Comrade Stalin

has revoked his promise.

Grisha, shut up!

Be brave! Show them how men

who stood with Lenin can die.

Not possible!

And a comedy.

Could you do that? No, no.

- Anatomically... no-no.

There goes our honor to Nikita,

N. Khrushchev, already boss of Moscow.

You've come a long way from Ukraine,

Nikita. Builder of our glorious Metro.

To our Nikita!

Like Lenin... ha-ha...

Show me your hands, Nikita.

Dirt under the fingernails!

- Oh-o-o

Can you imagine he comes to Stalin's

table with dirt on his fingernails!

It's really bad.

- They are working on the field.

Listen to these gentlemen: their hands

are clean and their nails are manicured.

Look!

These hands don't do work anymore. These

hands are the hands of a gentleman.

Put all your hands out.

All these gentlemen hands have

forgotten their proletarian origins.

Nikita.

To Nikita!

You did... now do the other-one.

No-no. Do Zinoviev again.

Surprised that you didn't look this

execution of Zinoviev and Kamenev.

You've sent Beria!

Ah, because I thought you

may have not the stomach for it.

Wouldn't have been the first

execution I have witnessed.

Not, but in your heart you're still

"the Pharmacist. "

Yagoda concocting poisons;

putting to death, making plots,

conspiracies;

... taking part in it.

Yezhov is replacing you.

Take that back to Moscow.

You, stinking dwarf!

Your turn... will come.

Anya! Anya!

Kamenev and Zinoviev have been shot.

- What?

Not only them.

And I heard a rumor -

they implicated me.

- What?

How can that be?

- These days anything is possible.

Old comrades are falling all over its way

to implicate all the old comrades.

And try to save their kids.

If Lenin had only lived...

- Be careful!

Yes. Yes.

Police, strange things

that have happened to me.

He knows that I understand

why Kirov was killed.

I've seen through his scheme,

the mass conspirator.

Accuses everyone else of conspiracy.

Eviction notice! You have one hour!

But... how can we make...

my books, my... my papers, my...

wife, our child.

Those are my instructions. Out!

One hour!

Hello?

- Nikolai, how are you?

Are you there? It's me, Koba.

How things're going?

I... I'm being evicted!

- What?

The house's full of soldiers.

- Who get to the heart of this?

No, who, the hell,

does tell you to go out?

For you. Comrade Stalin.

Hello!

Who gave you those orders, who? Who?

Comrade Yezhov.

Comrade Yezhov?

Comrade Yezhov is an idiot!

Get out of there - go! Out! OUT!

He would say Stalin has not

a sense of humor, Yezhov.

February 18, 1937

I'm coming to drink with your husband.

- He's expecting you.

You took flowers

to Nadya's grave yesterday.

Thank you.

It's for you, open it.

If N. Bukharin is an enemy of the people

then none of us is beyond suspicion.

Yes, yes.

You understand why it's happening?

- No.

I thought so.

These are dangerous times, Sergo.

We are getting stronger,

our enemies wouldn't allow this.

Enemy agents have penetrated

everywhere including high positions,

doing all they can

to wreck our economy.

Anyone to follow the murder of

Kirov wants the murder of Stalin.

I need your help, Sergo.

- You have it.

I want you to testify against Bukharin.

- Bukharin?

Yeah, you're close to him.

Your Zina - his Anya Larina.

You are not in the string.

Bukharin confides in you.

Approve your friendship to Stalin.

Prove your loyalty to the state.

You want Me to denounce Bukharin?

So that you could put him on trial?

Shoot him! Why go through all that?

Make it simple.

Our grate leader

defends the Soviet people.

Here.

You do it.

You shoot Bukharin yourself.

Have you got the guts?

Put it down - we've seen guns before,

they don't frighten me.

Put it down. There.

So, you won't denounce Bukharin, huh?

When your own brother

has denounced you.

Your brother has confessed

that you, Sergo,

gave orders as commissar

of heavy industry

for excess sabotage and wrecking

in the factories.

My brother has confessed?

You must admit there had been

too many incidents, too many.

You let my brother be beaten,

tortured?

Bring him here to Moscow.

I want us both to see.

It's too late.

- Too late?

Too-o late... ha-ha.

- You bastard!

You will kill us all!

Oh no! Sergo, Sergo, no!

You won't shoot comrade Stalin.

If you did,

the country would be in chaos.

The fascist would invade...

they would take to country

and you would go down in history as the

man who betrayed Russia to the Germans.

And the people oh, ...

the people would tear you,

your wife and your children.

Everyone who bears the name Ordzhonikidze,

they would tear him to pieces.

Eat your heart.

Drink your blood.

No, no; no -

you won't shoot comrade Stalin.

I think you will shoot yourself.

And we'll call it, er, a heart attack

brought out by comrade Ordzhonikidze

has worked day and night.

Their hero,

the Soviet Union's glory is dead.

And we will bury you with all honors.

In the Kremlin Wall...

close to the tomb of Lenin.

No-one would ever know

what a traitor you would be

in any part of the country.

And your family would be...

safe and honored.

That I promise.

You promise?!

- That's all you have, left, Sergo.

Wait!

You were in the seminary.

You'll recognize the words:

"Even as I have seen, they that plow

iniquity, and sow wickedness,

reap the same. "

It's the book of Jove.

"By the blast of God they perish,

and by the breath of his nostrils

are they consumed. "

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My father got his word this time -

Sergo was given a hero's funeral.

His ashes were placed in the Kremlin Wall

and Zina was left unharmed.

Papa!

My little house-keeper

has become a door-keeper.

Comrade Door-keeper.

Where did you get that dress?

It's too short.

Cover your knees.

And look at your legs - they're bare.

Change your dress.

But put on stockings.

You weren't at Sergo's funeral. Why?

I've... I am not feeling well.

I'll send the doctor.

- No, it's nothing. Don't bother.

I don't want to lose you, too.

So, take care of yourself.

Sergo didn't.

Heart attack.

- Yes.

They are all taking off.

Like birds from a branch.

Yeah, ha... like birds from a branch.

Koba, forgive me.

I'm a simple old woman.

No, I don't understand:

why they are missing.

No, how, did it, suddenly turn out

we had so many enemies?

- Olga!

These are people

we have known all our lives.

They are... were army officers, ...

loyal party...

my real friends, ... civil war heroes.

Now, what is happening?

Why are these people dying?

Can you tell me?

And why is everyone

who knew my daughter,

everyone who loved Nadya...

disappearing, being arrested?

But, who is destroying them? Is it you?

- Olga! For God's sake!

Why not arrest us all?

Yes! Why not?

Koba.

Be silent, be silent!

Why should I be silent?

Why won't let him kill me to?

You drove my daughter to suicide.

It was because of you she killed herself.

That's much better,

you'll feel better now.

Now it's much, much better,

comrade House-keeper.

My little sparrow.

Accused Bukharin!

March 2, 1938

Accused Bukharin! You have heard.

The other defendants testify

that you're a part of a conspiracy, under

the direction of the arch-traitor Trotsky,

to overthrow the Soviet regime.

To this end, numerous acts of

terrorism have been committed,

including the murder of Sergei Kirov

and even the planning of the

assassination of comrade Stalin.

What a miserable gang of traitors!

Openly sitting in my office.

What a miserable gang of traitors!

Confession's good for their souls.

And now Bukharin...

The climax of our play.

We have all heard the accused Yagoda

state that you discussed with him

a plot to murder Sergei Kirov.

I can't imagine why he said that.

There has been no such discussion.

I knew nothing of any scheme

to murder Kirov!

According to Yagoda testimony,

Kirov...

You didn't break him, huh?

How could you fail?

Core recess. Core recess.

You had months and months...

Let me have him for one night...

I'll have him confess

he is the king of England.

I have done my duty.

I've done everything you asked;

even my own deputy.

I am myself disclosed.

Top officials under your command,

plotting against Stalin.

And you supposingly are not involved?

Involved, involved?!

You yourself told me to purge the

security apparatus to get new people.

Yezhov, Yezhov, you monster!

Are you trying to tell me you

deliberately allowed people to be...

purged?! To be killed?!

What have you done, Yezhov?

How could you, Possibly,

Pay for your terrible crimes?

For comrade Stalin.

I beg you to spare my wife and child.

On March 12th 1939 without warning,

the German Army marched

over the Austrian border.

It was really all-awaited

full-scale invasion test,

and Hitler rode and triumphed

in Vienna.

An ominous development.

- You think so? I don't know, I...

You've got to admire Hitler - nobody

wants it and he isn't afraid to go for it.

He scares the British and French but

not comrade Stalin.

He's a fascist. Wants to destroy us.

He says it over and over.

He says a lot of things we all do.

I think right now

Hitler is looking east

and he's saying that:

"Stalin, I can work with him. "

So, is it done?

I gave it the personal touch.

Did he say anything?

- He asked me to give you this.

"Koba, why did you need my death?

Why?"

And this is what: Trotsky -

how did he get through our fingers?

He lives in Mexico City.

In that house

they converted into a fortress.

Why don't you get rid of him?

Yakov had gone through military school

and joined the army.

All in a vain attempt to win

our father's approval.

You have a grand-daughter!

So, you're going to be

an artillery officer?

Yes. We are calling her...

- I hope you don't show on our own lines.

I will do my duty.

With all the stretch in the higher

command lieutenants like you

may be commanding divisions.

I will do whatever is required of me.

Yakov!

June 22, 1941

So. What is the situation here?

The Germans are attacking everything.

There! Panzers have penetrated

our lines, their air force dominates...

We've lost almost 1000 aircrafts.

- A 1000 - how could that be?

Most were destroyed on the ground.

- On the ground?!

Despite warnings and recommendations

they were left in forward positions.

Now. Counter-attack!

Here, ... here and here!!!

Koba,

you don't understand the situation?

Our front is crumbling; our forces are

retreating trying to avoid capture!

No capture. No retreat,

no surrender. Attack!

Beria! Beria!

Bring the security troops

shoot anyone trying to retreat.

Shoot our own man!?

Yes, and we'll shoot you, too!

You, incompetent foo-o-ol!

Koba!

How can you say that!?

Who killed the whole

our best-of generals?

40 000 of our best officers.

Called them enemies of the people,

had them shot?

Who trusted Hitler?

Who said he would not attack us?

Voroshilov? NO!

It was you!

It Was YOU!

More! You do it more! More!

Koba.

Koba.

Koba,

It's been ten days.

We're waiting for you.

No-one could do anything.

Koba, they love you!

They are calling for you.

"Comrade Stalin,

save us!"

- Da.

"Save us!", they say. "Save us!"

Klim.

They didn't kill you?

How could they?

Without Stalin's orders?

- Da!

Comrades. Citizens.

Brothers and sisters.

We are united in the patriotic war

against an enemy who is trying

to turn our people

into slaves of the Germans.

We will resist.

We will hound and annihilate

the enemy.

We will show no mercy.

Hitler will go the way of Napoleon...

to defeat, ... to despair...

and to his death!

Your son, Yakov,

has been taken prisoner.

I have no son Yakov, hum, ... ?

No.

What you're waiting for?!

I hardly saw my father during the war.

When he learned that Yakov was killed

trying to escape from a German camp

he never told me.

The Germans reached

the gates of Moscow itself

and they surrounded Stalingrad, too.

When we finally pushed them back

20 million of our people had died.

It wasn't until near the end of the war,

at the burial of my grand-father,

that I saw my father again.

February 1945

It was the first time our family

had been together for years.

At least Sergei knew

we did everything we could.

The best doctors...

He died of silence,

he didn't die of cancer.

Kept in silence when his friends,

his comrades...

were sent to prison, were killed.

Keep your mouth shut!

What you have done, you, old bitch?

Look at my son, the general!

Can you stand on your own feet, Vasily?

And you, Svetlana? Don't use that as an

excuse to bring your Jew-husband around.

What did you teach them -

to raise my son to be a drunk?

And my daughter - do I have to say?

What could I've expected?

Did you teach your own daughter

to be loyal to her husband?

And you're trying to turn them

against me. Sergei but he knew me.

Sergei knew me.

The drunk - put him in jail

for a while, sober him up.

My family - what a curse they are.

The Ukrainian SSR

thanks our liberator,

the great comrade Stalin

best friend of all children!

The Uzbek SSR

thanks our great leader:

the genius comrade Stalin for Victory!

We do not thank comrade Stalin

for our victory.

We all know it was not Stalin

who defeated the Germans.

Comrade Stalin it was You!

We do not thank comrade Stalin

for our victory.

Our "Thanks" goes to the great

Russian people!

Your victory is a declaration to the

world that the Russian people

believe in a better future

and stand ready to make

whatever sacrifice is a necessary

to achieve the great construction

of socialism.

In the winter of 1950

my father sent for me.

I had heard

that his memory was fading.

And that he was suspicious

of everyone around him.

Now he wanted to see me.

And for the fist time his grandson,

Josef.

Wait! Give mama your hand.

Go to grandpa.

He has Jewish eyes.

Look! Who's that man?

He's someone who makes sure

that everything is all-right.

Don't ask so many questions.

- Why?

Because I think you don't have to know.

- Why?

Why, why... a real Jew.

I always carry something

for the squirrels.

See. Now, here. You feed it.

Here. Hold it out. You feed it.

Feed it.

You feed it.

Why that look?

I want you to free Anya Bukharin.

It has a beautiful red tail.

It won't bite it.

Mind your business!

You haven't the slidest idea of what

you're talking about.

She's harmless.

You know about harmless;

what, the hell, you know?

I know people are disappearing again.

Enemies!

Go to your mama.

They had no adherence to

the Soviet Union.

Enemies!

Grandpa's nice.

- Yes.

Well. For a man your age,

73,

you have a remarkable constitution.

In the Caucasus a man of 70 is still young.

He can mount a horse... or a woman.

But still...

you have had discus spills and...

perhaps angina.

And...

Your blood pressure

is dangerously high.

What do you recommend?

- As little work as possible.

Fruits, vegetables, ...

injections of vitamins.

No injection, no.

I will write a prescription.

No prescriptions.

I have my own remedy.

Go away, don't work, rest...

Isn't that what they told Lenin?

Thank you, Vinogradov.

You may go, now!

Yes, thank you.

No!... No!

No!

Taste it, Lavrenti!

- I don't like soup.

Taste it!

Look how your father spends his nights -

with this boring bunch of old men.

Where're you going?

- Home.

No, no! Stay!

A promise from papa:

it will get more interesting.

Now, sit down. Sit.

You eat, Lavrenti!

We have so far.

Fun at the expense of this four

until you eat.

Dance Nikita!

- No, no, no. With these feet... ?!

No, you go there!

- Dance Nikita!

Why don't you go who told me?

But don't be shy, dance!

Dance Lavrenti!

I'm out of breath.

I'm going old.

- No.

No, no. You'll live forever.

Now, we have to...

Who could follow Stalin,

who would follow Stalin?

None of you is worthy.

So:

I'm going to rid myself of all of you.

This soup you've eaten...

was poisoned.

As you're gonna see,

I didn't touch mine.

Papa.

You're joking, Koba.

No. No.

You have to be.

And you see... this is

fun.

Yes! Yes!

But you, all of you:

what do you think would happen...

without Stalin?

Svetlana, come.

Come here. Close the door. Come.

You know, I loved your mother.

Beautiful,

but she... was a fool this woman.

She didn't understand the situation;

what had happened, what I had to do.

She listened to certain people and

she turned against me.

She became my enemy...

and then she betrayed me.

She killed herself.

You killed yourself

to strike a plot against me.

Why?

It was your fault.

You caused it.

You're just like her.

You listen to my enemy -

Jews full of lethal poison.

Just that she did.

You let them turn you against me.

And who they are

I'll take good care of them.

Are you thinking

I don't know what you say?

I know! Stalin knows.

I know what you say,

what you do; who you screw.

I know everything.

Get out of here.

Papa.

This is a baby pig. For you.

Thank you.

Two bad girls.

Jimmy Druedack.

My time has come.

Jimmy Druedack.

Here!

Paste.

March 5, 1953

Come with us, please!

Go! Go forth!

You're a doctor, aren't you?

Why don't you take care

of his hand properly!

I'm sorry.

A hemorrhage... in his brain.

He can't... breath.

Let him suffer!

Murdering bastard!

Oh, forgive me! Forgive me!

Have you wondered... ?

Why did Beria...

waited a day, before calling

the doctor?

Now, I've wondered.

He'll try to take power.

It'll be as bad as before.

You said "as bad"?

I did?

- You did.

What have you thought about it?

About what we'll say

after Stalin dies.

About what?

- His crimes.

What crimes?

- Millions.

Nikita. You are too emotional.

You talk too much.

Who are we to judge Stalin?

Before him we were a weak

backward country... and now look at us:

we control half of Europe.

The whole of China.

We have the atomic bomb.

We command a respect.

Without Stalin...

it would've taken 20 years longer.

I don't believe that.

Without the purges, the arrests,

the killings...

Without Stalin

we could've been a great nation.

Our history required Stalin.

Papa!

Papa!

Stop it, please.

Can't you see the man is dead?

in Russian: To whom

you are leaving me... My God... .

in Russian: I'll be waiting for you...

Three months after Stalin's death,

Lavrenti Beria was executed

by his former associates.

Three years later, Nikita Khrushchev

began to reveal publicly

the nature and extent

of Stalin's crimes.

Svetlana Alliluyeva is alive

and lives in England.

Josef Stalin's crimes caused the deaths

of tens of millions of Soviet citizens.

Stalin ROBERT DUVALL

Nadya JULIA ORMOND

Lenin MAXIMILIAN SCHELL

Bukharin JEROEN KRABBE

Olga JOAN PLOWRIGHT

Sergei FRANK FINLAY

Beria ROSHAN SETH

Trotsky DANIEL MASSEY

Zinoviev ANDRAS BALINT

Voroshilov JOHN BOWE

Sergo JIM CARTER

Khrushchev MURRAY EWAN

and others.

This docudrama is based on extensive

research of the public record.

It was made without the endorsement or

authorization of any person

depicted in the film.