Stalin's Wife

Name: Stalin's Wife
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 29, 2005
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 44

2005

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Release Date: April 29, 2005

Summary: This documentary is a fascinating portrait of the spouse of Russia's most notorious dictator.

Director: Slava Tsukerman

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 104 min

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Kenneth Turan

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. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

There's plenty of passion beneath this movie's unadorned surface. Read full review

Phil Hall

If Stalin's Wife doesn't provide solid answers, it nonetheless offers a fascinating tapestry of love, madness, politics, suspicions and jealousies. Read full review

Russell Scott Smith

Unless you're already into this stuff, it'll be hard to stay awake through the documentary, which was made on a low budget with technical values that are decidedly amateurish. Read full review

David Sterritt

There's interesting material about Soviet history, but searching for answers about the revolutionary's spouse turns out to be less than engrossing. Read full review

Stephen Holden

A dense biographical collage. Read full review

Scott Foundas

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. Read full review

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