Svetlana About Svetlana 16 years old

Svetlana About Svetlana

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."

Credits

Svetlana About Svetlana Cast

Name Character
Joseph Stalin He was 129, 74 years old when he died

Svetlana About Svetlana Crew

Name Department
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Svetlana About Svetlana (16 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, July 24, 2008
  • Runtime: 44 minutes