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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
FR
Genres:
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Release:
August 2011
Production:
Roche Productions, France Télévisions, Planète+, DR, EPT, SBS, SVT, YLE, Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), Alma Films
Cast:
Patrick Floersheim, Jonathan Brent, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Natalya Rapoport, Gennady Kostyrchenko, Yakov Etinguer, Nikita Petrov, Lavrentiy Beria, Georgi Malenkov, Igor Prelin, Solomon Mikhoels, Natalia Mikhoels, Nina Mikhoels, Vladimir Vinogradov, Lyubov Vovsi, Miron Vovsi, Leonid Kogan, Rudolf Slánský, Leonid Mlechin
Tags:
paranoia, jew persecution, soviet union, joseph stalin, conspiracy, doctor, false accusations, archive footage, post world war ii, communism, denunciation, 1950s, antisemitism
