I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

Я служил в охране Сталина, или Опыт документальной мифологии

1989 · 78 min · tt0098682

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.