Svetlana About Svetlana

Synopsis

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."

Main Cast

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Stalin's daughter

Age : 85 | Popularity : 5%

Lana Parshina

Interviewer

Age : 45 | Popularity : 7%

Joseph Stalin

(archive footage)

Age : 74 | Popularity : 8%

Nadezhda Alliluyeva

Svetlana's mother

Age : 31 | Popularity : 4%

Stephen Fode

Warden

Age : 57 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Dmitriy Rozin
Crew	Cinematography	Keith DeCristo Sergei Krasikov
Directing	Director	Lana Parshina
Writing	Writer	Svetlana Alliluyeva Lana Parshina
Sound	Music	Deddy Tzur
Department	Role	Name

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