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)

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