The Death of Stalin tells the story of Stalin’s last days on Earth through a drama/comedy loosely based on historical events. What? The movie follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death.
It is a forthcoming Franco-British satirical period comedy-drama film directed by Armando Iannucci which chronicles the events that transpired after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.
It will be released by IFC Films in the United States and by eOne Films in the United Kingdom. It has been selected to be screened in the Platform section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
Cast
- Adrian Mcloughlin as Joseph Stalin
- Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov
- Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev
- Olga Kurylenko as Maria Yudina
- Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov
- Simon Russell Beale as Lavrentiy Beria
- Paddy Considine as Comrade Andreyev
- Andrea Riseborough as Svetlana Stalina
- Rupert Friend as Vasily Stalin
- Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov
- Paul Whitehouse as Anastas Mikoyan
- Paul Chahidi as Nikolai Bulganin
- Dermot Crawley as Lazar Kaganovich
- Justin Edwards as Spartak Sokolov
- Richard Brake as Tarasov
- Jonathan Aris as Mezhnikov
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths as musician
