January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.
Patrick Floersheim
as Narrator (voice)
Jonathan Brent
as Self - Historian
Иосиф Сталин
as Self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov
as Self (archive footage)
Natalya Rapoport
as Self - Daughter of doctor Yacov Rapoport
Gennady Kostyrchenko
as Self - Historian
Yakov Etinguer
as Self - Son of doctor Yakov Etinguer
Nikita Petrov
as Self - Historian
Lavrentiy Beria
as Self (archive footage)
Georgi Malenkov
as Self (archive footage)
Igor Prelin
as Self - Former KGB colonel
Solomon Mikhoels
as Self (archive footage)
