In Stalin's Arms

(TV movie)
  • Finland Stalinin sylissä
? %
Short / Documentary
Finland, 1989, 28 min

Directed by:

Reijo Nikkilä

Screenplay:

Reijo Nikkilä

Cinematography:

Kari Ahola
(more professions)

Plots(1)

A little girl called Gelya sitting on Stalin's lap with a smile on her face is one of the most famous pieces of pictorial Soviet propaganda of the 1930s. Behind her smile, Gelya hides her father's death sentence and her mother's suicide. 61 years old in the film, Gelya recounts what happened in the 1930s. (DocPoint)