Steve Buscemi

Simon Russell Beale

Jeffrey Tambor

Dermot Crowley

Michael Palin

Paul Whitehouse

Paul Chahidi

Andrea Riseborough

Adrian McLoughlin

Jason Isaacs

Paddy Considine

Rupert Friend

Olga Kurylenko

Tom Brooke

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Justin Edwards

Paul Ready

Julia Mulligan

Andrey Korzhenevskiy

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Jeremy Limb

Andy Gathergood

Alexander Piskunov

Ruslav Neupokoev

Alla Binieieva

Nicholas Woodeson

Elaine Caxton

George Potts

Cara Horgan

Nicholas Sidi

Jonny Phillips

Alex Harvey-Brown

Tim Steed

June Watson

Adam Shaw

Daniel Tuite

David Crow

Karl Johnson

Emilio Iannucci

Daniel Booroff

Dan Mersh

Richard Brake

James Barriscale

Daniel Tatarsky

Eva Sayer

Diana Quick

Adam Ewan

Michael Ballard

Phil Deguara

Jonathan Aris

Katie McCreedy

Ewan Bailey

Leeroy Murray

Keely Smith

Sheng-Chien Tsai

Dave Wong

Sergey Korshkov

Alexander Grigorivev

Olga Dadukevich

Nastya Koshevatskaya

Danya Bochkov

Sebastian Anton

Nastya Karpenko

Gerald Lepkowski

Luke D'Silva

Daniel Chapple

Daniel Smith

Ellen Evans

Oleh Drach

Daniel Fearn

Henry Helm

Fabien Nury

Matt Crook

Armando Iannucci

David Schneider

Ian Martin

Peter Fellows

Thierry Robin

Yann Zenou

Nicolas Duval Adassovsky

Laurent Zeitoun

Kevin Loader

Paul Biddiss

Zac Nicholson

Peter Lambert

Christopher Willis

Sarah Crowe

Cristina Casali

Angelica Pressello

Suzie Harman

Daniel Rogers

André Logie

Gaëtan David

Nicole Stafford

Sarah Wheale

Jean-Christophe Colson

Louise Seymour

Martin Curry

Jane Brodie

David Hindle

Charlotte Dirickx

Sally Rose Davidson

Julie Kendrick

Kirsty Mcqueen

Jacqueline Rathore

Alex Rouse

Livia Burton

Anna Brabbins

Hanna Haffenden

Mykola Perestiuk

Jahn Ramis

Louise Begbie

Temple Clark

Jo Hawthorne

Charlotte Hutchings

Douglas Ingram

Stuart Bagshaw

Paula Boram

Oliver Brierley

Mark DeSimone

Alex Fielding

Nigel Heath

Chris Navarro

Alex Sawyer

Ruth Sullivan

Neal Champion

Aurelia Abate

Michel Denis

Laurent Gillet

Ronald Grauer

Mark Southworth

Paul Herbert

Andrew Bailey

Nicola Dove

Alex Finlayson

Iain Mackay

Seán McDermott

Alexander Liam Taylor

Hannah Walter

Hannah Warren

George Adams

Andrew Glen

Olga Avrahova

Emma Davie

Scott Eaton

Freya Pinsent

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The Death of Stalin

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France 3 Cinéma

La Compagnie Cinématographique

Panache Productions

AFPI

Belgium

Canada

France

United Kingdom

English

chaos

dictator

socialism

dark comedy

satire

biography

based on true story

joseph stalin

death

military

political satire

regime

1950s

An interesting, but somewhat worrying docudrama look at the United Kingdom if Comrade Corbyn ever came to power.

Gimly

Pretty genuinely funny, which I was not expecting. A great one for me and my roommate with a hammer and sickle tattoo to watch together.

_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

Oh, Lordy, how close were these characters to the real people?  If you want to learn how illegitimate governments use and abuse power, this is your movie.  Forget Seven Days in May, Downfall, All the President's Men, etc.  This black-hearted comedy is about the machinations of the Politburo (or whatever these cunning clowns called themselves) to carve up power at the end of the reign of the 2nd worst mass murderer of all time, Josef Stalin.  The callous disregard for the most basic respect for human life leaves one horrified, but the machine-gun delivery of snide and snark between these murderous clowns makes you squirm on the sofa.  You know who the "good guys" are which, in itself, shows that same disrespect for human life.  You feel conflicted because you've picked sides, and I picked Nikita Khrushchev, and not because he was played by Steve Buscemi ("Shut up, Donnie!).

If you have no knowledge of the story of the power struggle after Uncle Joe vapor-locked and rolled to a halt, then accept that the history isn't terribly accurate, but who the hell cares?  The viewer sees the mad rush to grab, grab, and grab when the megalomaniacal monster moves on to a luxury suite in Hell.  These monsters seem human.  I'm totally sure that a black comedy about Adolph or Mao would have the same cunning sleazeballs trying to add to the world's supply of worm food.  You wouldn't shoot for a sequel.  Everything you need to know is right here.

What I found so disturbing about TDOS was the casual nature of killing people.  Prisoners, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, NKVD leaders die with a terrified shout of "Long live, Stalin" and a sharp crack of a pistol.  Sometimes that seems to go on and on and on in the echoing background cells of the Kremlin.  You get used to the background noise.

So, if you have a taste for the sort of humor you might find in "Best in Show," wherein one character exclaims how romantic it was to lock eyes on each other from their respective corner Starbucks, if you enjoy the feeling of being conflicted about picking good guys when everyone is saturated with Marxist evil, and/or if you like rolling back the video to find out if he or she really said THAT, then sit back and sip that vodka slowly.

The Death of Stalin( 2017)

In the Kremlin, no one can hear you scheme

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A review by Mex5150

Written by Mex5150 on Sun Feb 25 2018

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