2017 Directed by Armando Iannucci
When tyrannical dictator Josef Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweebish Georgy Malenkov, the wily Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrenti Beria, the sadistic secret police chief.
Steve Buscemi Simon Russell Beale Paddy Considine Rupert Friend Jason Isaacs Olga Kurylenko Michael Palin Andrea Riseborough Jeffrey Tambor Paul Chahidi Dermot Crowley Paul Whitehouse Adrian McLoughlin Tom Brooke Justin Edwards Paul Ready Yulya Muhrygina Andrey Korzhenevskiy Roger Ashton-Griffiths Jeremy Limb Andy Gathergood Alexander Piskunov Ruslav Neupokoev Alla Bineeva Nicholas Woodeson Elaine Caxton George Potts Sylvestra Le Touzel Nicholas Sidi Show All…
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I did something so insulting.... so blasphemous... so abhorrent.
Ready?
I watched this film on the plane.
BUT
I still laughed my ass off and think it’s one of my faves so far this year. The comic timing is impeccable. The performances shine. My god... Paddy Considine really shows his comedy chops.
Loved it and recommend seeing it ASAP. But not on a plane... it deserves better.
VEEP meets CITY OF GOD.
more grim than funny, but still plenty funny. by far my favorite thing that Armando Iannucci has ever done.
“Who would put a lamp on a chair?”
Unabashedly declaring this the best
[dark (as FUCK)] comedy of last year;
Iannucci's the master political satirist.
Now that's a fucking dark comedy. Very very funny and sharp and brilliant, but tonally upsetting and maybe a little confusing in a way I need some time to process? Or, just need to know more about history for. Who can say! I think I liked it!
75
Fucking hysterical, mostly for showcasing the idiocy in group government dynamics while never shying away from the violence and complete disregard for human life around the chaotic remnants of the regime. In various scenes set inside the torture chambers, background bodies are shot (both on and off screen), conveying the same narrative function as a moment where a nameless prisoner tumbles outrageously down the stairs. The Death of Stalin wrestles with hilarity and horror within the same confined, decedent spaces, and the disruptions of each are startling. In a showing before mine, a woman apparently yelled "Communism isn't funny!" before storming out. Of course, even if it wasn't funny (and The Death of Stalin almost constantly is -like a squabbling contest between imbeciles), the film suggests something far worse: that it's true and, to quote The Giant in Twin Peaks, "it is happening again."
Poking fun at the regime of fear created by one of the fiercest Dictatorships in world history.
As a Russian history buff with a degree in Political Science, I really enjoyed the dark and dry humour that writer and director Armando Lannucci pulled out of the political turmoil of the USSR following the death of Stalin.
In the spirit of classic political comedies like 'Dr. Strange Love', the movie does a great job of toying with the absurdness of the rumored treachery that Stalin evoked on his empire. While he did industrialize the nation and help defeat the Nazis during WW2, he is also said to have sent millions of people to their deaths via execution or prison camps known…
