First I have to say that English is not my mother tongue, so I hope this review will make any sense to you all. Next it may be a bit strange that a spanking movie is reviewed here. But then, I'm not really into spanking myself. I consider it at most a prelude to the real thing. Nevertheless, while surfing around, this particular movie caught my attention. The vidcaps on their site convinced me to buy the movie.

STALIN 2 is a continuation of the earlier movie Stalin which is far less interesting IMO while set in a school. Stalin II describes the methods of the Secret Communist Police in Eastern Europe during the fifties. It tells the story of 3 schoolgirls and their female teacher who are all arrested and tortured (mostly beaten) until they say whatever the police wants them to say.

First to come is Bozenka, the daughter of a dissident. She is brought to the prison by policemen dressed as Gestapo-officers. In their she is forced to strip and has to undergo a humiliating strip search. She has to bend over and spread her butt cheeks but the camera only gives a frontal view of the crying girl. After she is photographed she gets thrown into a tiny cell. The female guard orders her to never stop moving. Either she walks or squats all the time. Nice idea. After a short interrogation by a nonstop smoking policeman, you see Bozenka tied to a small bench. Her legs are manacled to the wall. The torturer puts on his working suit (!), sets his clock and starts to cane her.

Next is the English speaking classmate Nikolaja. She gets almost the same treatment as Bozenka. After Nikolaja, the teacher and a third classmate are beaten in an almost identical setting, what makes that part rather dull.

The last 15 minutes of the almost 1 hour movie are the most interesting. The girls are beaten while sitting on a wooden horse; with hands tied strappado-wise; Bozenka gets a nasty caning on her genitals...Nikolaja is the hardest to crack. She is forced to squat; in one shot she tries not to fall while standing blindfolded and tied in a straight-jacket on a basket; she is tied to the wall while water drips over her head... Finally she signs a confession as they threaten to shoot her.

The actresses are not the most beautiful girls around, but they now how to act. At least they know how to look scared and to scream and that's enough for me. What makes the movie work are the details: the old typewriter in the interrogation room, the beautiful old-timer, the torturer setting his clock as he begins,... The director tried his best to put a story in his movie. And not to forget the Czech language.