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.

• Filmexport Studios
• Panorama Studio
• Joseph Stalin
• Fyodor F. Feodorovsky
• Nadezhda Alliluyeva
• Alexey Rybin