I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

Documentary · 1990

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.

Starring

Yuri Klepikov, Semyon Aranovich, Semyon Aranovich, Joseph Stalin, Sergey Sidorov, Fyodor F. Feodorovsky, Aleksandr Knaifel, Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Director

Semyon Aranovich