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- 2005
- 1 h 44 m
- 2005
- 1 h 44 m
Summary This documentary is a fascinating portrait of the spouse of Russia's most notorious dictator.
Directed By: Slava Tsukerman
Written By: Slava Tsukerman
- 2005
- 1 h 44 m
- 2005
- 1 h 44 m
Stalin's Wife
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Summary This documentary is a fascinating portrait of the spouse of Russia's most notorious dictator.
Directed By: Slava Tsukerman
Written By: Slava Tsukerman
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
44
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
What results is an intimate, chatty film, both cheeky and thorough, the kind of high-class historical gossip you might get if an eminent Soviet historian like Robert Conquest or Richard Pipes went to work for the National Enquirer.
If Stalin's Wife doesn't provide solid answers, it nonetheless offers a fascinating tapestry of love, madness, politics, suspicions and jealousies.
A dense biographical collage.
There's interesting material about Soviet history, but searching for answers about the revolutionary's spouse turns out to be less than engrossing.
Though serviceable as a primer on Soviet history under Stalin, the film's sloppy assemblage of dull interviews and stock footage never comes close to illuminating a life that the Russian people have long cherished as a precious enigma.
Shakily cobbled together from stock footage and new interviews with authors and family, Stalin’s Wife is nearly barbarous in its denial of aesthetic pleasure. The whole thing looks like a late-night-TV infomercial.
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Production Company
Cinetron Productions,
Myrabel Studios
Release Date Apr 29, 2005
Duration 1 h 44 m
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Website
http://www.stalinswife.com/
