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The Death of Stalin

Cast

Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend View All

Crew

David Schneider (Screenplay), Armando Iannucci (Screenplay), Armando Iannucci (Director), Fabien Nury (Screenplay) View All

Release: Oct. 20th, 2017

Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes

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.

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It's jarring to be asked to laugh at Beria sprinting to be the first to greet and hug Svetlana, when just moments earlier we watched him abduct and sexually assault a teenage girl, or when we've seen him torture a man and then demand the sexual assault of another man's wife.

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