The Death of Stalin (2017)

The Death of Stalin (2017)

  • 7.2
  • 1h 47min
  • Comedy, Drama, History
  • 2018-03-09 (USA)

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?



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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