Biography: Joseph Stalin
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Biography: Joseph Stalin
CU of Stalin. Stalin meeting with Nazi officers. Stalin & 2 men walking down a street. CU of Stalin.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
DO NOT USE Opening
Biography: Joseph Stalin
LS's of Czar Nicholas II and the ruling class walking through the streets of St. Petersburg.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
LS's of the Soviet working class; depiction of the peasant life and inherent poverty; in the streets and in the countryside; working and eating.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
DO NOT USE Stills of Stalin as a boy, then as a young man (portraits).
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Tight LS's of Marxist orators addressing large groups of Russian men outside.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Excerpts from "Battleship Potemkin" by Sergei Eisenstein: the Odessa Steps sequence.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
DO NOT USE Stills of Stalin's mug shot and criminal record.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin and his revolutionaries: MS of Lenin sitting behind a desk; CU of Lenin standing outside and a tight LS of the same.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
The outbreak of WW I : montage of battle scenes, Russian trench warfare and the impending aftermath (tight LS's of dead bodies caught in barbed wire, corpses half-submerged in water-filled trenches).
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Tsar returns from the front. Various shots of Czar Nicholas II and royal family. They vacate the palace and go into hiding.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
DO NOT USE Feature Film
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Montage of the first Soviet Revolution. Tight LS of Lenin addressing Russian men out in the cold.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
DO NOT USE Excerpts from Eisenstein's "October".
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Lenin speaking to crowd. CU Stalin. Montage depicting the extent of Soviet poverty. People waiting in food lines. Relief comes as foreign aid from the United States, cargo ships unloaded.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Lenin dies: tight LS's of the funeral procession through Red Square and CU's of the corpse.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
GV of Moscow with Kremlin in the distance.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Stalin and officials. Stalin's emergence as dictator and his five year plan, includes another montage depicting Soviet poverty and famine. Tight LS's and MS's of kulak farmers toiling their land; tight LS's of kulaks in chains being paraded around for the benefit of the Red Army. LS of dozens of dead kulaks on display in a public court. Battle with kulaks. LS's of kulak homes being burned down. Churches are destroyed. Orthodox icons destroyed.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
MS of Stalin smiling and talking to children at a press opportunity. Various shots of smiling Stalin talking to people. CU Stalin talking to crowd.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing the American public about diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union (includes real audio). Trade returns to Soviet Union. Cargo moving into the country.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Montage of Stalin and his persecution trials (cabinet members on trial, false charges of spying, deceipt and treachery); the purges of state officials and anyone near Stalin. Execution of 3 men (firing squad) in wide LS, followed by tight MS's of the executed. CU of Stalin at state events. A huge banner with the face of Stalin is lifted by a hot air balloon.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Hitler speaking to huge crowd. Nonaggression pact signed between Hitler and Stalin. The outbreak of WW II, battle scenes of invasion of Poland. MS's of Hitler, Goebbels and Goering planning in a warroom. Tight, panning LS's of a German Panzer division driving past the camera on a country road. Battle scenes. Nazi advance into Russia is stopped. Bodies and supplies lay across the frozen Russian front. Soviet soldiers advance on Nazi army. Low angle, wide MS of a Soviet soldier on top of a steel gateway atop which rests a swastika. He bends the iron swastika and places a Red Army flag in its place.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Tehran conference with Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt (quick montage of the proceedings and press opportunities).
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Yalta conference, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt. Montage of May Day festivities at Red Square: artllery firing into the night, neon lights in Moscow (most reading "CCCP") and the celebration of the war's end in Europe; parades, large crowds and an adminstering Stalin. Potsdam meeting between Harry Truman, Stalin and Churchill (good shots of the three).
Biography: Joseph Stalin
The ascension of the Iron Curtain via parade montage: tight LS's and MS's of men bearing enormous CCCP banners marching through Red Square, crowds, and MS of Stalin waving awkwardly.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
MS of Mao Tse Tsung and Stalin after their political affliation, conference room montage followed by them in a Soviet concert hall on a packed house evening.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Stalin attends funeral of Andrey Zhdanov. CU of Stalin speaking to people.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Various shots of Moscow. Stalin dies; montage of the funeral procession.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
DO NOT USE stills of the dead body.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev becomes new leader. MS's of him publicly denouncing and deposing Stalin and his dictatorial regime.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
DO NOT USE Still of common grave Stalin's body was moved to. Excellent shots of fallen Stalin statues surrounded by Soviet men, including one of just the broken head of a Stalin statue lying in the street.
Biography: Joseph Stalin
DO NOT USE Closing