Esse filme feito pela HBO para a TV, dirigido por Ivan Passer, é baseado no livro de memórias da filha de Stalin, Svetlana, que foi best-seller nos anos 60, então pode se esperar uma visão benévola do ditador e, na verdade, Svetlana parece ser a única por quem Stalin demonstra afeto. Ele ama sua esposa, Nadya (Julia Ormond), mas a maltratava ele ao ponto de suicídio. Ele odiava seu filho ilegítimo, mas é um ponto de vista de Svetlana de seu pai com defeitos.
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Veja o filme com legendas em Português e Inglês neste link: https://youtu.be/s_q9Xl0JffM
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Robert Duvall) rises from his rejection as being physically unfit in the Czar's Army during World War I to undisputed head of the huge Soviet empire of the 1950s. After the success of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, he vies with archrival Leon Trotsky (Daniel Massey) for power under the acknowledged leader, Vladimir Lenin (Maximilian Schell). After Lenin's stroke, the merciless Georgian's ruthless methods soon eliminates all rivals and his cruel paranoia and overt sadism help him maintain power by eliminating every possible rival, including many former comrades.
It's based on the memoirs of Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, a big seller in the 1960s, so one would expect a kind of benign view of the Soviet dictator and, indeed, Svetlana appears to be the only person towards whom he shows genuine affection. He loved his wife, Julia Ormond, of course but mistreated her to the point of suicide. He hated his illegitimate son and kept his own son in disregard. So it's a daughter's view of her admittedly flawed father, but let's keep some things in the family too.
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