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Svetlana About Svetlana

Svetlana About Svetlana

Documentary
2008, Movie, 44min
Svetlana Parshina was deeply moved by her childhood reading of Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter. Years later, learning that the now 82-year-old was living incognito in a Madison, Wisconsin retirement home, Parshina phones and requests an interview. After repeated denials, and only after insisting upon certain conditions, the now-82-year-old Alliluyeva finally consents to a rare filmed interview in which she discusses her education, marriages, her children, the development of her own humanistic philosophy, her CIA-assisted defection to the U.S., and her skeptical views on the competing Cold War ideologies. In more intimate moments, she discusses her childhood, her nanny, the suicide of her mother, her brothers Vasily and Yakov (who died in a Nazi concentration camp) and, of course, her famous father, who most Soviets saw as "a living God."
Country: United States,Russia
Director:
Lana Parshina
Cast:
Lana Parshina,
Joseph Stalin,
Svetlana Alliluyeva,
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
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Lana Parshina
As Interviewer
Lana Parshina
Director
Lana Parshina
Writer
Joseph Stalin
As (archive footage)
Svetlana Alliluyeva
As Stalin's daughter
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
As Svetlana's mother
Stephen Fode
As Warden

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In "Svetlana About Svetlana," a documentary filmmaker tracks down Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, who has been living incognito in a Wisconsin retirement home. After initial resistance, Alliluyeva agrees to a rare filmed interview, sharing her thoughts on her life, including her education, marriages, children, and her controversial views on politics and ideology. The film offers a unique glimpse into the life of a woman who has lived through some of the most significant events of the 20th century, and provides a personal and intimate perspective on the legacy of Stalin and the Soviet Union.

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Svetlana About Svetlana was released in theaters on July 24, 2008.

 

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