Film

The Death of Stalin

2017 · 1h 47m · Comedy · Drama · History

He’s dead, and the backstabbing has just begun

IMDb

7.3

Rotten Tomatoes

94%

Metacritic

88

When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?

Steve Buscemi

Nikita Khrushchev

Simon Russell Beale

Lavrenti Beria

Jeffrey Tambor

Georgy Malenkov

Jason Isaacs

Field Marshal Zhukov

Michael Palin

Vyacheslav Molotov

Rupert Friend

Vasily Stalin

Andrea Riseborough

Svetlana Stalin

Dermot Crowley

Lazar Kaganovich

Paul Whitehouse

Anastas Mikoyan

Paul Chahidi

Nicolai Bulganin

Adrian McLoughlin

Josef Stalin

Paddy Considine

Andreyev

Olga Kurylenko

Maria Veniaminovna Yudina

Tom Brooke

Sergei

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Nina Khrushchev

Justin Edwards

Spartak Sokolov, Conductor #1

• Armando IannucciDirector · Screenplay
• Fabien NuryScreenplay
• David SchneiderScreenplay
• Ian MartinScreenplay
• Kevin LoaderProducer
• Yann ZenouProducer
• Laurent ZeitounProducer
• Nicolas Duval AdassovskyProducer
• Tanya SokolovaProducer
• Sofia MaltsevaProducer

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Release date

October 20, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

R

Budget

$13,000,000

Revenue

$24,600,000

Genres

Comedy, Drama, History

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