Death of Stalin, The
Death of Stalin, The
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Proclaimed "the funniest political comedy of the year" (The Daily Beast), The Death of Stalin delivers a brutally executed parody of Cold War Russia. When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution – but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Written and directed by Emmy Award winning and Oscar nominated Armando Iannucci, Rolling Stone calls the film a ''brilliant satire from a crack ensemble'' (including Emmy and Golden Globe winner Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Andrea Riseborough and Michael Palin).

Armando Iannucci---2017---France/United Kingdom---107 mins

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   | JohnH#1

Stalin seemed immortal. When he died I, like many in the West, was shocked, and apprehensive. We figured that there would be a power struggle to name a successor, but nobody seemed to have any idea of what was going on in the Kremlin. History has revealed the intrigue from which Bulge and Krush emerged victorious, and Death of Stalin sticks pretty close to the facts. At first I was put off by the unimaginative and gratuitous profanity, and the fact that many of the principals didn't resemble the characters they were playing: Malenkov was grossly fat, not lean and lanky, Beria was nowhere near as corpulent as the actor who portrayed him, Khruschev was short and dumpy, Molotov, :"Old stone bottom", looked like a stern and grumpy grandpa, not a timorous bureaucrat. And, I think that Zhukov was more noble that the blustering braggart shown on screen. Most importantly, I was really put off by playing it for laughs. Power struggles in the Polituburo were not funny, they were deadly serious. However, as the film went on my attitude changed. The process WAS ridiculous. Chaplin's Great Dictator, Suetonius' Lives of the twelve Caesars, Procupius' Secret History came to mind. Totalatarianism does lend itself to satire. In special features the director pointed out that Death of Stalin was finished before Trump became president, but the implication was clear. if the shoe fits, wear it.

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