

Stalin's Last Plot
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

Patrick Floersheim
Narrator (voice)

Jonathan Brent
Self - Historian

Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)

Vyacheslav Molotov
Self (archive footage)
Natalya Rapoport
Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport
Gennady Kostyrchenko
Self - Historian
Yakov Etinguer
Self - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer

Nikita Petrov
Self - Historian

Lavrentiy Beria
Self (archive footage)

Georgi Malenkov
Self (archive footage)
Igor Prelin
Self - Former KGB colonel

Solomon Mikhoels
Self (archive footage)
Natalia Mikhoels
Self - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels
Nina Mikhoels
Self - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels
Vladimir Vinogradov
Self (archive footage)
Storyline
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.
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