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Mar 9, 2018 · Yes, “The Death of Stalin” is a kind of farce, but it’s a mordant one. It never asks us to laugh at cruelty; it does make us laugh at the absurd pettiness and ultimate small-mindedness of the men perpetrating that cruelty. And Iannucci is a superb ringmaster. Eschewing the banal, flat-footed conventions of verisimilitude, Iannucci has ...
Rated 4.5/5 Stars • 02/26/24. Witness the fall of one of histories greatest tyrants and the hilarious officials who try to take Stalin's place! After their beloved leader dies, the remaining ...
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- Armando Iannucci
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- Steve Buscemi
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2020. Dan Tabor Phawker. The Death of Stalin strikes a tricky tone, but it rings true. The events portrayed in the film happened 65 years ago, and ...
Sep 8, 2017 · Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Death of Stalin,' with Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, observes the jockeying for power after the Soviet Union's longtime leader dies.
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Mar 8, 2018 · The movie opens in early March 1953. The iron-fisted Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin), 74, has ruled the Soviet Union for decades and racked up countless crimes against humanity and millions of victims.
- Armando Iannucci
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Parts of The Death Of Stalin have the same barbed, outspoken humour found in Iannucci’s politically-themed TV satires like The Thick Of It and Veep. The jokes, though, begin to seem increasingly ...
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Sep 14, 2017 · The Death of Stalin, set in the Soviet Union in 1953, is endlessly funny, but more absurdist than those earlier works. The story spins off from real events. When Josef Stalin suffers a stroke and ...