Stalin's Disciples
| Stalin's Disciples (in Hebrew Stalin's Children) | |
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| ילדי סטאלין | |
| Directed by | Nadav Levitan |
| Written by | Gadi Danzig Nadav Levitan |
| Produced by | Doron Eran |
| Starring | Aharon Almog |
| Cinematography | Gadi Danzig |
| Edited by | Shimon Tamir |
| Music by | Chava Alberstein |
| Distributed by | Tal-Shahar |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Israel |
| Language | Hebrew |
Stalin's Disciples (Hebrew: ילדי סטאלין, in Hebrew Stalin's Children) is a 1986 Israeli film directed by Nadav Levitan that satirizes the utopian ideology of the Israeli kibbutz.
The death of Joseph Stalin in the 1950s leads to an ideological crisis on a kibbutz that identifies with communist principles. The blind faith of three elderly shoemakers, who previously abused a young boy daring to criticize Stalin, begins to disintegrate when they learn of the Soviet leader's crimes and the manifest antisemitism on display at the Prague Trials.
It's 1953 at Kibbutz Hashomer Hatzaier (The Young Guard, in Hebrew). Moshko (Hugo Yarden) admires Stalin's portrait at his shoemaker workshop as he cleans the dust off the mustache.
The film was shot in Kibbutz Nir Eliyahu.