The Death of Stalin

Comedy, Drama, History

In the days following Stalin’s collapse, his core team of ministers tussle for control; some want positive change in the Soviet Union, others have more sinister motives. Their one common trait? They’re all just desperately trying to remain alive.

Directed by: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Chahidi, Dermot Crowley, Adrian McLoughlin, Paul Whitehouse, Jeffrey Tambor
Produced by: Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Kevin Loader
Screenplay by: Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin
Based on: La Mort de Staline by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin

Music by: Chris Willis
Cinematography: Zac Nicholson
Edited by: Peter Lambert

Production company: Gaumont, Main Journey, Quad Productions, France 3 Cinema, La Cie Cinématographique, Panache Productions, AFPI
Distributed by: eOne Films (United Kingdom), Gaumont (France)
Release date: 8 September 2017 (TIFF), 20 October 2017 (United Kingdom), 4 April 2018 (France)

Running time: 107 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
Language: English

Cast

Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev
Simon Russell Beale as Lavrentiy Beria
Paddy Considine as Yuri Andreyev
Rupert Friend as Vasily Stalin
Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov
Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov
Andrea Riseborough as Svetlana Stalina
Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov
Adrian McLoughlin as Joseph Stalin
Olga Kurylenko as Maria Yudina
Paul Whitehouse as Anastas Mikoyan
Paul Chahidi as Nikolai Bulganin
Dermot Crowley as Lazar Kaganovich
James Barriscale as Kliment Voroshilov
Leeroy Murray as Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Daniel Fearn as Ivan Konev
Luke D'Silva as Kirill Moskalenko
Gerald Lepkowski as Leonid Brezhnev
Dave Wong as Zhou Enlai
Richard Brake as Anatoly Tarasov
Diana Quick as Polina Molotova
Justin Edwards as Spartak Sokolov (Conductor 1)
Tom Brooke as Sergei
Nicholas Woodeson as Boris Bresnavich (Conductor 2)
Karl Johnson as Lukomsky
Cara Horgan as Lidiya Timashuk
Jonathan Aris as Mezhnikov
Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Musician
Sylvestra Le Touzel as Nina Khrushcheva
Paul Ready as NKVD Officer Delov

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