
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
Storyline
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.
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