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.

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Cast

Patrick Floersheim

as Narrator (voice)

Jonathan Brent

as Self - Historian

Joseph Stalin

as Self (archive footage)

Vyacheslav Molotov

as Self (archive footage)

Natalya Rapoport

as Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport

Gennady Kostyrchenko

as Self - Historian

Yakov Etinguer

as Self - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer

Nikita Petrov

as Self - Historian

Lavrentiy Beria

as Self (archive footage)

Georgi Malenkov

as Self (archive footage)

Igor Prelin

as Self - Former KGB colonel

Solomon Mikhoels

as Self (archive footage)

Natalia Mikhoels

as Self - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels

Nina Mikhoels

as Self - Daughter of Solomon Mikhoels

Vladimir Vinogradov

as Self (archive footage)

Lyubov Vovsi

as Self - Daughter of doctor Miron Vovsi

Miron Vovsi

as Self (archive footage)

Leonid Kogan

as Self - Son of doctor Boris Kogan

Rudolf Slánský

as Self (archive footage)

Leonid Mlechin

as Self - Journalist

Director

Philippe Saada