Movies about Stalin

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How come there are none? Never seen him depicted in a movie, certaintly not in the way Hitler was in Der Untergang...
 
Let's make one, i'll grow a moustache, and you can be Trotsky, we can pick each other brain's in deep dark night while Frida Carlo is giving us both a good ole 'job. :)
 
RedRalphWiggum said:
How come there are none? Never seen him depicted in a movie, certaintly not in the way Hitler was in Der Untergang...
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Play Red Alert. :p

But in all seriousness, I think that one of the film versions of Generations of Winter probably partially shows him doing stuff, mostly in the Politburo scenes, right?
 
There was an outstanding HBO made movie about him with, I think, Robert DuVall playing Stalin. Hold on, lemme check imdb....ah...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105462/

Here is a quote of the first user comment that shows up.
This is one of the rare biopics that offer less opinions and more facts. Over three hours long, the movie covers the dictator's life from his exile in Siberia when he took the name Stalin up to his death in 1953. It does not try to feature the then world politics and even contemporary Russia as a whole, nor it wastes further screen time on the social reaction to Stalin's policies too much. It features Stalin and only Stalin. It focuses exclusively on his personal life (naturally, since the movie is narrated by his daughter Svetlana) and his take on the fellow comrades of the party. And the filmmakers remain more-or-less true to the facts, giving neither imaginative shock moments nor just plain history.

Robert DuVall looks nice as Stalin,and his performance is also satisfactory. But I don't know why he used that Vito Corleone accent on him. Did Stalin use to talk that way? I don't know. Julia Ormond does a really magnificent job as his second wife Nadya. Her timid yet free-spirited attitude is nicely portrayed by Ormond. And I also must mention Joanna Roth as Svetlana and Roshan Seth as Beria for a really good job. All the actors lift this movie up to a really higher level. Along with the flawless screenplay, acting is another asset of the film.
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P.S. - You haven't kissed me yet, Red!
 
Hmm... cheers all. but would really like to see one conerning politics and war
 
The Winds of War had a Stalin. The movie is a famous old miniseries from the eighties based off of the novel by Herman Wouk. The main character meets him while on a military mission to Moscow in early '41. Dont remember how good it was but vaguely remember the character to be depicted as both sinister and charismatic.
 
joycem10 said:
The Winds of War had a Stalin. The movie is a famous old miniseries from the eighties based off of the novel by Herman Wouk. The main character meets him while on a military mission to Moscow in early '41. Dont remember how good it was but vaguely remember the character to be depicted as both sinister and charismatic.
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Stalin wasnt in the least bit charasmatic... ever see his speeches? worst public speaker ever
 
RedRalphWiggum said:
Stalin wasnt in the least bit charasmatic... ever see his speeches? worst public speaker ever
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Im talking about in his interaction with the main character. The depiction kinda came off a bit like Bela Lugosi's Dracula playing Stalin. Thats the kinda charisma I mean.
 
Annex said:
Theres an animated Animal Farm movie. A live action one would be...kinda weird.
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Plus it wouldnt feature Stalin, unless it was the porn version with Stalin in it, which would be incomprehensibly bizarre
 
What, are you bitter thinking it featured Trotsky more?
 
I mean Stalin in human form
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No such thing ever existed. But I guess we could pretend, like some old Russians do.

Stalin was a monster, one of the worst ever.
 
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