Mythos Stalin

original title:
Mythos Stalin
country / year of production:
Germany / 2003
original length:
2x60 min. , color
premiere:
7 March 2003/ 14 March 2003
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Inga Wolfram , Helge Trimpert , Hans Dieter Rutsch
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plot synopsis:
This documentary deals with the admiration of the Soviet dictator Iossif Wissarionowitsch Dshugaschwili, called Stalin. On 5th of March 1953, the day of his death, not only the Soviet Union lost a ruler, also the GDR lost a "God". In life time, people of the GDR admired him like God himself, but he remained in distance to Germany. The film deals with the cult of Stalin, that survived his personal death and ended in a specific German Stalinism. New historical resurch proofs the reign of terror and create a psychological pisture of the dictator.
keywords:
communism , war crimes , authenticity , concentration camps , prisoners of war , massacre
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Klaus Kellmann. Stalin. Eine Biographie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005.

Richard J. Overy: Die Diktatoren: Hitlers Deutschland, Stalins Russland. München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005.

Donald A. Filtzer: Soviet workers and late Stalinism: Labour and the restoration of the Stalinist system after World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002.

Heinz-Dietrich Löwe: Stalin: Der entfesselte Revolutionär. Göttingen: Muster-Schmidt, 2002.
remarks:
Part 1: Stalin - Tod eines Diktators
Part 2: Stalin auf deutsch - Der Diktator
und die DDR
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