Vyacheslav Molotov

Acting

Vyacheslav Molotov

Born 1890-03-09 · Kukarka, Yaranskiy uyezd, Vyatskaya governorate, Russian Empire

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov ((OS 25 February) 9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Russian politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.

Acting credits

Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility poster
7.3

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.

Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility

2009

Mission to Moscow poster
5.7

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Mission to Moscow

1943

Behind the scenes of fascism poster
NR

Documentary about the phenomenon of fascism. Filmmaker Emerson Vermaat views secularization as a major cause of the rise of fascist systems. National Socialism, Communism, racism, and the influence of the church are discussed. In the Netherlands, politician Hans Janmaat (between 1982 and 1998) represents the racist aspect of fascism, while in America, it is the Ku Klux Klan. Featuring numerous interviews and archival material.

Behind the scenes of fascism

1983

Palme poster
7.6

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.

Palme

2012

Stalin: Man of Steel poster
NR

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.

Stalin: Man of Steel

2003

State Funeral poster
6.6

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.

State Funeral

2019

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century poster
8.0

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.

Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

2014

Korea: The Never-Ending War poster
7.8

Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confronts the myth of the “Forgotten War,” documenting the post-1953 conflict and global consequences.

Korea: The Never-Ending War

2019

The Battle of France poster
8.5

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

The Battle of France

1964

The Hitler–Stalin Pact poster
8.2

How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences.

The Hitler–Stalin Pact

2019

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NR

A Russian newsreel documenting the fifteenth anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution.

Soviets on Parade

1933

Stalin's Last Plot poster
8.0

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.

Stalin's Last Plot

2011

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre poster
7.2

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

2020

Crimean Conference poster
10.0

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalition was held from February 4 to February 11, 1945 in the Livadia Palace near Yalta.

Crimean Conference

1945

Velikoye proshchaniye poster
5.5

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin.

Velikoye proshchaniye

1953

A Web of War poster
10.0

The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain, and a Polish underground member are told by the very same Canadians who survived them.

A Web of War

1996

Our Cinema poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Our Cinema

1940

Berlin Conference poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Berlin Conference

1945

Too Near the Sun poster
7.0

Documentary, first broadcast in 1966, that tells the history of the superbomb, exploring the race by scientists to imitate the nuclear reactions of the sun and build the first thermonuclear weapon. The film reveals how the careers and reputations of some of the scientists involved were seared in the process.

Too Near the Sun

1966

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

All-Union Physical Culture Parade

1945

Life of a Shock Force Worker poster
7.0

Adem, a Bosnian coal miner who spends his days digging in the dark depths, and in very harsh conditions, is praised for his work and achievements and known as an exemplary socialist worker.

Life of a Shock Force Worker

2023

Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star' poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Literary-Instructional agit-steamboat VTsIK 'Red Star'

1919