Stalin is a 1992 television film, produced for HBO, starring Robert Duvall portraying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The film won three Golden Globe Awards among various awards including cinematography awards for Vilmos Zsigmond as well as best actor for Robert Duvall. Filming was done in Budapest, Hungary and Moscow, Russia, with extraordinary access to Kremlin buildings in the weeks surrounding the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Plot
The film portrays the political career and personal life of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Georgian-born Ioseb Jughashvili, who later adopted the name Joseph Stalin demonstrating his rule and how he was able to bring the Soviet Union to a place of great power on the world stage, but at a consequence: in this case, the destruction of his family as well as the mass murder of millions of his own Revolutionary partners. The focus is on the behaviour of Stalin and the after effects. The story is as narrated by Stalin's daughter, who defected to the United States in 1967.
Cast
- Robert Duvall as Joseph Stalin
- Julia Ormond as Nadezhda Alliluyeva
- Maximilian Schell as Vladimir Lenin
- Jeroen Krabbé as Nikolai Bukharin
- Joan Plowright as Olga Alliluyeva
- Frank Finlay as Sergei Alliluyev
- Daniel Massey as Leon Trotsky
- András Bálint as Grigory Zinoviev
- Emil Wolk as Lev Kamenev
- Roshan Seth as Lavrentiy Beria
- Mátyás Usztics as Nikolai Yezhov
- John Bowe as Kliment Voroshilov
- Jim Carter as Sergo Ordzhonikidze
- Murray Ewan as Nikita Khrushchev
- Stella Gonet as Zinaida "Zina" Volkova
- Elena Seropova as Nino Beria
- Colin Jeavons as Genrikh Yagoda
- Miriam Margolyes as Nadezhda Krupskaya
- Kevin McNally as Sergey Kirov
- Clive Merrison as Vyacheslav Molotov
- Lisa Orgolini as Anya Larina
- Joanna Roth as Svetlana Alliluyeva
- Aleksandr Feklistov as Leonid Nikolaev
Awards and nominations
Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€" Miniseries or Television Film â€" Robert Duvall
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor â€" Series, Miniseries or Television Film â€" Maximilian Schell
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress â€" Series, Miniseries or Television Film â€" Joan Plowright
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie
- Primetime Emmy Award for Individual in Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual in Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Special
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Miniseries or a Special
Nominations
- Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie â€" Robert Duvall
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie â€" Maximilian Schell
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie â€" Joan Plowright
References
External links
- Stalin at the Internet Movie Database
- Stalin at AllMovie
- Stalin at YouTube
