Stalin's Disciples (1986)

Name: Stalin's Disciples
Released: 1986-01-02

1h 35m

Running Time

Plot.

A comical exploration of the 50's in the Israeli Kibutz movement, when socialist values were reexamined following the death of Stalin. With their mentor and iconic leader gone, the members of the Kibutz have to face a political and social reality without a leader to encourage and unite them.

Where to Watch.

No streaming offers found

Cast & Crew.

Aharon Almog

Ezra Dagan

Rahel Dobson

Nadav Levitan

Director

Yossi Kantz

Actor

Shmuel Shiloh

Actor

Gadi Danzig

Writer

Doron Eran

Producer

Chava Alberstein

Composer

Details.

Release Date
January 2, 1986

Original Name
ילדי סטאלין

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 35m

Last updated: 2025-02-11

Wiki.

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.