I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

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.

I Was Stalin's Bodyguard was released on December 1, 1989.

I Was Stalin's Bodyguard runs 1 hour 18 minutes (78 minutes).

I Was Stalin's Bodyguard was directed by Semyon Aranovich.

The cast of I Was Stalin's Bodyguard includes Joseph Stalin, Fyodor F. Feodorovsky, Nadezhda Alliluyeva (Stalin's 2nd wife) and Alexey Rybin (Stalin's bodyguard).