Storyline

In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage. Inevitably, when his body is discovered the following morning, a frenetic surge of raw panic spreads like a virus among the senior members of the Council of Ministers as they scramble to maintain order, weed out the competition, and, ultimately, take power. But in the middle of a gut-wrenching roller-coaster of incessant plotting, tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe; not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?

Plot Keywords

satire, black comedy, soviet union, russia, year 1953, moscow russia, power struggle, death, dictator, based on comic book, tyrant, comrade, raid, record player, crying man, cold war, parody, ussr, suicide of mother, drinking

Short Review

A devastatingly funny dissection of power politics, stripping the mystique from it and those who worship it. Iannucci has done it again.

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