Alexei Petrenko

Alyeksyey Vasil’yevich Pyetryenko (Russian: Алексей Васильевич Петренко) (born March 26, 1938, a village of Chemer, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine) is a Soviet / Russian film and stage actor. He played Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors.

Petrenko (right) greeting President Vladimir Putin in 2001

Selected filmography

• King Lear (1971)
• The Servant (1989)
• Luna Park (1992)
• World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis, and the West (2008)
• The Barber of Siberia (1998)
• Into The Storm (2009)

External links

• Alexei Petrenko at the Internet Movie Database