Svetlana About Svetlana · 2008
Svetlana About Svetlana (2008) is a Documentary film directed by Lana Parshina, starring Svetlana Alliluyeva, Lana Parshina, Joseph Stalin.
Documentary
Overview
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."
Cast
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Lana Parshina, Joseph Stalin, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stephen Fode
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What is "Svetlana About Svetlana" about?
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."
When was "Svetlana About Svetlana" released?
Svetlana About Svetlana was released in 2008.
Who stars in "Svetlana About Svetlana"?
The cast includes Svetlana Alliluyeva, Lana Parshina, Joseph Stalin, Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
