The Plot to Kill Stalin

1958 • Directed by

Delbert Mann

Comedy, Crime, Drama

A Real-Life Drama

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.