Svetlana About Svetlana

Svetlana About Svetlana (2008)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2008-07-24
  • Runtime: 0h 44min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Independent Film Project
  • Production Country: Russia, United States of America
  • Director: Lana Parshina

Summary

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."

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  • Svetlana Alliluyeva

    as Stalin's daughter
  • Lana Parshina

    as Interviewer
  • Joseph Stalin

    as (archive footage)
  • Nadezhda Alliluyeva

    as Svetlana's mother
  • Stephen Fode

    as Warden
Sound Deddy Tzur Music
Crew Sergei Krasikov Cinematography
Crew Keith DeCristo Cinematography
Editing Dmitriy Rozin Editor
Directing Lana Parshina Director
Writing Lana Parshina Writer
Writing Svetlana Alliluyeva Writer

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