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Stalin's Last Plot

Stalin's Last Plot

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 26, 2011

Genres

Documentary, History, TV Movie

User Score

80%

Original Title

Le Dernier Complot de Staline

Production Companies

Roche Productions, France Télévisions, Planète+, DR, EPT, SBS, SVT, YLE, Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), Alma Films

Director

Philippe Saada

Description

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.