Directed by
| Jonathan Lewis | ||
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
| Jonathan Lewis | ... | (written by) |
Cast (in credits order)
| Ian Holm | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
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Yuri Aichewald | ... | Self |
| Svetlana Alliluyeva | ... | Self - Stalin's daughter | |
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Valentin Astrov | ... | Self - Informer |
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Aleksandr Avdeyenko | ... | Self - Magnitogorsk worker (as Alexander Avdeyenko) |
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Abdulrakhman Avtorkhanov | ... | Self - Party activist |
| Stephen Cohen | ... | Self - Director, Russian Studies, Princeton University (as Prof. Stephen F. Cohen) | |
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Lev Kopelev | ... | Self - Party activist |
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Moshe Lewin | ... | Self - University of Pennsylvania (as Prof. Moshe Lewin) |
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Lev Martyukhin | ... | Self - Belomor Canal Prisoner |
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Alisa Maslo | ... | Self - Ukraine villager |
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Mykola Pishy | ... | Self - Ukraine villager |
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Natalya Rodionova | ... | Self - Wife of Party member Leningrad |
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Alexey Rybin | ... | Self - Stalin's bodyguard |
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Olga Shatunovskaya | ... | Self - Member, Kirov Commission |
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Wilhelmina Slavutskaya | ... | Self - Comintern agent |
| Joseph Stalin | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) | |
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Robert Tucker | ... | Self - Biographer of Stalin (as Prof. Robert C. Tucker) |
Produced by
| Jonathan Lewis | ... | producer |
| Phillip Whitehead | ... | executive producer |
Music by
| Nigel Hess | ... | (title music composed by) |
Editing by
| Alan Ritchie | ||
Art Department
| Morgan Sendall | ... | graphic design |
Location Management
| Lyudmila Sotkovskaya | ... | location manager |
Additional Crew
| Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko | ... | consultant |
| Irina Antonyan | ... | interpreter |
| Richard Bradford | ... | archival film transfer |
| Teresa Cherfas | ... | researcher |
| Alexander Chubaryan | ... | consultant (as Prof. Alexander Chubaryan) |
| Stephen Cohen | ... | consultant (as Prof. Stephen F. Cohen) |
| John Erickson | ... | consultant (as Prof. John Erickson) |
| Raye Farr | ... | archive research: U.S. |
| Gregory Guroff | ... | consultant (as Dr. Gregory Guroff) |
| Isobel Hinshelwood | ... | researcher |
| Mary Horwood | ... | production assistant |
| Moshe Lewin | ... | consultant (as Prof. Moshe Lewin) |
| Alec Nove | ... | consultant (as Prof. Alec Nove) |
| Yuri Polyakov | ... | consultant (as Prof. Yuri Poliakov) |
| Oleg Rzheshevsky | ... | consultant (as Prof. Oleg Rzheshevsky) |
| Vladimir Savitsky | ... | production associate |
| Karen Snare | ... | production secretary |
| Adrian Wood | ... | film researcher |