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Svetlana About Svetlana 2008 Free Unlimited Access
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."
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Svetlana Alliluyeva, Lana Parshina, Joseph Stalin, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stephen Fode
Crew: Lana Parshina (Director), Deddy Tzur (Music), Svetlana Alliluyeva (Writer), Sergei Krasikov (Cinematography), Dmitriy Rozin (Editor), Lana Parshina (Writer)
Studio: Independent Film Project, Icarus Films
Runtime: 44 minutes
Quality: HD
Release: Jul 24, 2008
Country: Russia, United States of America
Language: English, Pусский