As regards his casting in The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucciâs splendidly bleak new comedy about Soviet power struggles, he is even more down on himself: âI was pretty sure that Armando had
Stalin died on March 5, 1953, aged 74. Though public commemorations remain largely taboo and streets no longer bear his name, his reputation has in recent years undergone something of a
The Death of Stalin was released on the eve of the centenary of the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian Revolution on November 7 1917. (Although by the old style calender used in Russia at the time
Moscow, March 1953: in the days following the death of Joseph Stalin, countless citizens flooded the Red Square to mourn their leaderâs loss and witness his burial in Leninâs Tomb. Though the parade of pomp and circumstance was captured in detail by 200 camera operators, their footage has remained largely unseen in the intervening decades.
Stalinâs daughter, Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough), is depicted as a slightly steelier version of Selina Meyerâs daughter, Catherine, a fawn among sharks. Both Khrushchev and Beria promise to
Isaacs is a formidable presence as Field Marshal Zhukov; he's the hot knife that cuts through the congealed fat of bureaucrats who convene a committee to debate getting a doctor when they find Stalin felled. The Death of Stalin's tragicomic chaos vaults over a bar that few films would dream of attempting to clear.
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