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Release Date:
October 15, 2009
Original Title:
Сталин вспомнил о вас
Alternate Titles:
Stalin vspomnil o vas
Genres:
Documentary
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 100
Over the course of his long career, Boris Efimov drew political cartoons about pretty much every important world event. He spent his entire career at periodicals and newspapers such as Pravda, meaning that for many years he drew under the most exacting, watchful eye of Stalin. In this film made just before his death in 2008 at the age of 108, Efimov explains in one of the many conversations with the director Kevin McNeer that his feelings about the dictator are ambivalent.
Director:
Kevin McNeer
Director of Photography:
Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev
Sergei Polikov
Editor:
Kevin McNeer
Producer:
Bart Kuyper
Sound:
Arsen Akopyan
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