Sergei Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev. A Stalinist who ended the terror regime of his predecessor. A statesman and reformer who brought the world to the brink of catastrophe. Stalin's Great Terror, de-Stalinization and the worst crises of the Cold War are closely linked with his name. A film from the center of power. Narrated by his closest family members.

In the midst of the Cold War the daughter of cruel Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, flees to the USA: its capitalist archenemy. The red tsar's favorite child soon becomes a media star in the US, but she can never truly escape her father's bloody shadow.