2017 political satire film by Armando Iannucci
The Death of Stalin
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Directed by
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Written by
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Screenplay by
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Based on
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Produced by
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- Yann Zenou
- Laurent Zeitoun
- Nicolas Duval Adassovsky
- Kevin Loader
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Starring
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Cinematography
| Zac Nicholson
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Edited by
| Peter Lambert
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Music by
| Christopher Willis
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Distributed by
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Release dates
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- 8 September 2017
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2017-09-08
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TIFF
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- 20 October 2017
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2017-10-20
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(United Kingdom)
- 4 April 2018
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2018-04-04
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(France)
- 18 April 2018
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2018-04-18
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Running time
| 107 minutes
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Countries
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- France
- United Kingdom
- Belgium
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Language
| English
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Budget
| $13 million
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Box office
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The Death of Stalin
is a 2017
political satire
black comedy
film written and directed by
Armando Iannucci
and co-written by
David Schneider
and
Ian Martin
with Peter Fellows. Based on the French graphic novel
La Mort de Staline
(2010?2012), the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the members of
Council of Ministers
following the
death of Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin
in 1953. The French-British-Belgian co-production stars an
ensemble cast
that includes
Steve Buscemi
,
Simon Russell Beale
,
Paddy Considine
,
Rupert Friend
,
Jason Isaacs
,
Olga Kurylenko
,
Michael Palin
,
Andrea Riseborough
,
Dermot Crowley
,
Paul Chahidi
,
Adrian McLoughlin
,
Paul Whitehouse
, and
Jeffrey Tambor
.
The film premiered on 8 September 2017 at the
Toronto International Film Festival
. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom by
Entertainment One Films
on 20 October 2017, in France by
Gaumont
on 4 April 2018, and in Belgium by September Film Distribution on 18 April 2018. It received critical acclaim and various accolades, including nominations for two
British Academy Film Awards
, one of which was for
Outstanding British Film
, and 13
British Independent Film Awards
, four of which it won. There was fierce opposition to the film in
Russia
, where it was seen as "anti-Russian propaganda", and it was banned there, as well as in
Kyrgyzstan
, for allegedly mocking the Soviet past and making fun of the
USSR
.
[4]
[5]
Plot
[
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]
On the night of 1 March 1953,
Joseph Stalin
calls the director of
Radio Moscow
and demands a recording of the live recital of
Mozart
's
Piano Concerto No. 23
that has just concluded. The performance was not recorded, so the director, not wanting to anger Stalin, hurriedly refills the now-half-empty auditorium, fetches a new conductor to replace the original one, who has fainted, and orders the orchestra to play again. Pianist
Maria Yudina
initially refuses to perform for the cruel dictator, but ultimately is persuaded to comply.
Meanwhile, Stalin is hosting a tense, but rowdy, gathering of members of the
Central Committee
at his home, the
Kuntsevo Dacha
. As
Foreign Minister
Vyacheslav Molotov
leaves,
NKVD
-head
Lavrentiy Beria
reveals to
Nikita Khrushchev
and
Deputy Chairman
Georgy Malenkov
that Molotov is to be part of
the latest purge
. When the recording of the performance arrives, Stalin finds a note that Maria managed to hide in the record sleeve, in which she admonishes him and expresses her hope for his death. He reads it, laughs, and suffers a
cerebral haemorrhage
. Despite hearing him fall, Stalin's guards, fearful of being punished for disturbing him, do not enter his office.
Stalin's housemaid discovers him unconscious the next morning. The members of the Central Committee each learn about the situation through their own networks and rush to the dacha. Beria, who is the first to get there, finds Maria's note. Once Malenkov, Khrushchev,
Lazar Kaganovich
,
Anastas Mikoyan
, and
Nikolai Bulganin
arrive, the Committee finally decides to send for a team of doctors. Most of the best doctors in Moscow have been arrested for being part of
an alleged plot
, so the doctors who can be found are not very impressive. After a brief bout of
terminal lucidity
, Stalin dies. While the members of the Committee return to Moscow, Beria's order for the NKVD to take over the
Soviet Army
?held security postings across Moscow is carried out.
Beria and Khrushchev vie for the support of Stalin's children,
Svetlana
and her unstable, alcoholic brother
Vasily
, and Molotov. Beria has Molotov removed from the list of those to be rounded up, and has
his wife
released from prison. The Committee names Malenkov
chairman
. He is essentially a puppet of Beria, who further exerts control by hijacking Khrushchev's proposed reforms, such as releasing political prisoners and
loosening clerical restrictions
. Khrushchev is relegated to planning Stalin's funeral.
After Beria learns Khrushchev and Maria are casually acquainted, he threatens Khrushchev with Maria's note. Khrushchev, to create problems for the NKVD, reverses Beria's order to halt all transportation into Moscow. The Committee wants to blame junior NKVD officers when 1,500 arriving mourners are killed. Beria angrily dissents, believing that would amount to blaming him, and threatens his colleagues with documents detailing their involvement in various purges.
Marshal
Georgy Zhukov
, irate over the supplanting of the military by the NKVD, agrees to support Khrushchev in a
coup
against Beria, so long as it occurs after
Stalin's funeral
the next day and Khrushchev can get the rest of the Committee on board. With time running out, Khrushchev cannot get Malenkov to discuss his plan, but he tells everyone else that the decision is unanimous, and they commit themselves. Khrushchev gives Zhukov the green light, and the Soviet Army reclaims its posts from the NKVD. Zhukov, assisted by a group of soldiers led by
Kiril Moskalenko
, storms into a meeting of the Committee and arrests Beria.
Malenkov does not intervene and reluctantly signs Beria's death warrant, horrified at what he had done to his victims. At Beria's
emergency trial
, Khrushchev accuses him of
counter-revolutionary activities
,
sexual assault
, and
pedophilia
, and immediately declares him guilty after evidence of the final accusation is delivered by the Soviet army. Beria begs for his life but is summarily shot in the head, and Zhukov has his body burned in the courtyard. Despite Svetlana's protests, Khrushchev sends her to Soviet-occupied
Vienna
, while keeping Vasily in Russia, where he can be watched. He concurs with Kaganovich that Malenkov is too weak to lead.
In 1956, Maria is the soloist at another performance of Concerto No. 23. Khrushchev, having triumphed over the other members of the Committee to become the new leader of the Soviet Union, is in attendance.
Brezhnev
, who will succeed Khrushchev in 1964, eyes Khrushchev from his seat.
Cast
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]
- (Note: At the time the film's events took place, many of the characters' real-life counterparts did not hold the positions listed in the film.)
- Steve Buscemi
as
Nikita Khrushchev
,
1st Secretary Moscow Committee
- Simon Russell Beale
as
Lavrenti Beria
, Head of
NKVD
Security Forces
- Paddy Considine
as Andreyev, director of
Radio Moscow
- Rupert Friend
as
Vasily Stalin
, Stalin's son
- Jason Isaacs
as
Field Marshal
Georgy Zhukov
,
Head
of the
Soviet Army
- Olga Kurylenko
as
Maria Veniaminovna Yudina
, a pianist
- Michael Palin
as
Vyacheslav Molotov
,
Foreign Secretary
- Andrea Riseborough
as
Svetlana Stalina
, Stalin's daughter
- Dermot Crowley
as
Lazar Kaganovich
,
Minister for Labour
- Paul Chahidi
as
Nikolai Bulganin
,
Minister for Defence
- Adrian McLoughlin
as
Joseph Stalin
, General Secretary of the USSR
- Paul Whitehouse
as
Anastas Mikoyan
,
Minister for Trade
- Jeffrey Tambor
as
Georgy Malenkov
,
Deputy to Stalin
- Tom Brooke
as Sergei, an
audio engineer
for Radio Moscow
- Justin Edwards
as Spartak Sokolov (Conductor 1)
- Paul Ready
as NKVD Officer Delov, who is tasked with finding the girl from the picture with Stalin
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths
as Musician 1
- Nicholas Woodeson
as Boris Bresnavich (Conductor 2)
- Sylvestra Le Touzel
as
Nina Khrushcheva
, Khrushchev's wife
- Nick Sidi
as NKVD Officer
Bogdan Kobulov
, Beria's right-hand man
- Jonny Phillips
as NKVD Officer Pervak, who assists Stalin, and then Malenkov
- Alex Harvey-Brown as Soldier guarding Stalin's bedroom
- Tim Steed as Sergeant guarding Stalin's bedroom
- June Watson as Matryona Petrovna, Stalin's housemaid
- Daniel Tuite as NKVD Officer Sliminov, who tells Beria Stalin is ill
- Karl Johnson
as Dr. Lukomsky, a retired doctor brought in to examine Stalin
- Cara Horgan
as Lidiya Timashuk, who helps round up the doctors
- Dan Mersh as Ice Hockey Coach
- Richard Brake
as
Anatoly Tarasov
, Vasily's assistant
- Eva Sayer as Young Waitress
molested
by Beria
- Diana Quick
as
Polina Molotova
, Molotov's wife
- Jonathan Aris
as Mezhnikov, the funeral arranger
- Gerald Lepkowski
as
Leonid Brezhnev
, part of Zhukov's execution squad
- Luke D'Silva as
Kirill Moskalenko
, part of Zhukov's execution squad
The film's credits reveal that several other historical figures are depicted in the film in small roles, among them
Zhou Enlai
(played by Dave Wong) and Marshal
Ivan Konev
(played by Daniel Fearn).
Production
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]
During the
2016 Cannes Film Festival
, it was announced that production on the film was set to begin in June, and that
Jeffrey Tambor
,
Steve Buscemi
,
Olga Kurylenko
,
Timothy Dalton
,
Toby Kebbell
,
Michael Palin
,
Simon Russell Beale
,
Paddy Considine
, and
Andrea Riseborough
were in "advanced talks to join the project."
[6]
By the time filming started on June 20,
Adrian McLoughlin
and
Paul Whitehouse
had joined the cast, and
Jason Isaacs
had replaced Dalton as Georgy Zhukov, while
Rupert Friend
had replaced Kebbell as Vasily Stalin.
[7]
[8]
[9]
Production wrapped on 6 August 2016.
[7]
Scenes were shot on location in
Kyiv
(exterior scenes and the exteriors of the Public Enemies building and the NKVD building),
Moscow
(the
Red Gate Building
), and the United Kingdom (
Blythe House
,
Battersea Park
,
Mansion House
,
Fulham Town Hall
,
Goldsmiths' Hall
,
Shoreditch Town Hall
,
Freemasons' Hall
,
Alexandra Palace
, and
Hammersmith Town Hall
in London,
Mongewell
Park in
Oxfordshire
,
Black Park
in
Buckinghamshire
,
[10]
and
Wrest Park
in
Bedfordshire
).
[11]
The film's
score
was composed by
Christopher Willis
, who tried to write in the style of Soviet composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
.
[12]
[13]
Release and reception
[
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]
Box office
[
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]
The Death of Stalin
was screened in the Platform section at the
2017 Toronto International Film Festival
.
[14]
It was released in theatres by
eOne Films
in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2017, and by
IFC Films
in the United States on 9 March 2018.
[15]
[16]
[1]
The film grossed $8 million in the United States and Canada and $16.6 million in other territories (including $7.3 million in the UK), for a worldwide box office total of $24.6 million.
[3]
Critical response
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On the
review aggregator
website
Rotten Tomatoes
, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 254 reviews, with an average score of 8/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "
The Death of Stalin
finds director/co-writer Armando Iannucci in riotous form, bringing his scabrous political humor to bear on a chapter in history with painfully timely parallels."
[17]
On
Metacritic
the film has a
weighted average
score of 88 out of 100 based on 43 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
[18]
Peter Bradshaw
of
The Guardian
gave the film 5/5 stars, writing that "fear rises like gas from a corpse in Armando Iannucci's brilliant horror-satire" and that it "is superbly cast, and acted with icy and ruthless force by an A-list lineup. There are no weak links. Each has a plum role; each squeezes every gorgeous horrible drop."
[19]
Sandra Hall
of
The Sydney Morning Herald
gave the film 4.5/5 stars, describing it as "a devastatingly funny dissection of power politics, stripping the mystique from it and those who worship it."
[20]
Donald Clarke of
The Irish Times
gave the film 4/5 stars, writing that it "starts in a state of mortal panic and continues in that mode towards its inevitably ghastly conclusion".
[21]
Tim Robey of
The Daily Telegraph
also gave the film 4/5 stars, writing: "Depending on your point of view,
The Death of Stalin
is either a sly, wintry satire on Armando Iannucci's usual theme of squawking political idiocy, or an insidious attempt to destabilise the Russian establishment with relentless dagger-blows."
[22]
Peter Howell of the
Toronto Star
gave the film 3.5/4 stars, writing: "Shifting eastwards from the Anglo-American japes of
In the Loop
and
Veep
, director/co-writer Armando Iannucci doesn’t stint on brutal truth ? or lethal legend."
[23]
Christopher Orr of
The Atlantic
praised the film's humour and performances and wrote that it "seems precisely attuned to
the current moment
: a capricious, unpredictable leader, basking in a
cult of personality
; the introduction of '
alternative facts
'; the swift, party-wide swerves on subjects as various as
negotiating with North Korea
,
paying off porn stars
, and even
Russian efforts to subvert a U.S. election
."
[24]
Anthony Lane of
The New Yorker
wrote that the film was "ten times funnier, by my reckoning, than it has any right to be, and more riddled with risk than anything that Iannucci has done before, because it dares to meet outrage with outrage."
[25]
Raphael Abraham of the
Financial Times
wrote: "As this coven of vampiric
apparatchiks
feasts on the remains of
Stalinism
, the unremitting blackness of the situation at times threatens a full comedy eclipse. But the discomfiting balancing act of humour and horror is precisely Iannucci's game?and only he could pull it off with such skill."
[26]
Thomas Walker, in
The Objective Standard
, agreed, adding that the film "dives deep into the psychology of those living under such a system and lays bare the self-destructive mind-set of those who grasp wildly for power."
[27]
Matthew Norman of the
Evening Standard
gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "For all [Iannucci's] dream-team cast and assured direction, despite capturing the laughable sycophancy of the apparatchik the film isn't that funny."
[28]
Peter Debruge of
Variety
wrote: "If only the end result were as funny as the idea that anyone would undertake a film about the turmoil surrounding the Soviet despot's demise."
[29]
Former U.S. President
Barack Obama
included
The Death of Stalin
on a list of his favourite films of 2018.
[30]
Russia and former Soviet bloc
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Nikolai Starikov
, head of the Russian
Great Fatherland Party
, called
The Death of Stalin
an "unfriendly act by the British intellectual class", and part of an "anti-Russian information war".
[5]
In September 2017, the head of the Public Council of the
Russian Ministry of Culture
said Russian authorities were considering a ban on the film, alleging that it could be part of a "western plot to destabilise Russia by causing rifts in society".
[31]
Russian online newspaper
Vzglyad
called the film "a nasty sendup by outsiders who know nothing of our history".
[5]
The
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
called the film "revolting", and
Alexander Yushchenko
, a spokesman for the party, said it was an attempt to spark discontent.
[31]
On 23 January 2018, two days before the film's scheduled release in Russia,
[32]
a screening was attended by
State Duma
MPs, representatives of the Russian Historical Society, members of the Ministry of Culture's Public Board, and film industry members. Two days later, the Ministry of Culture withdrew the film's distribution certificate. Several cinemas screened the film in late January, and, though they claimed they had not heard the exhibition license had been revoked, the Ministry sued these theatres.
[4]
According to the results of a poll conducted by the state-run
Russian Public Opinion Research Center
(VTSIOM), 35% of Russians disapproved of the Ministry of Culture's decision to keep the film from Russian screens, while 30% supported the ban and 35% were neutral. 58% of Russians said they would be willing to watch the film in cinemas if the ban were lifted.
[
citation needed
]
According to Iannucci, by January of 2019, the film had been illegally downloaded 1.5 million times in Russia.
[33]
A group of lawyers from Russia's Ministry of Culture; Era Zhukova, the daughter of Marshal Zhukov; cinematographer
Nikita Mikhalkov
;
Vladimir Bortko
; and Alexey Levykin, head of the Russian
State Historical Museum
,
[34]
petitioned Culture Minister
Vladimir Medinsky
to withdraw the film's certification, saying: "
The Death of Stalin
is aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, violating the dignity of the Russian (Soviet) people, promoting ethnic and social inferiority. We are confident that the movie was made to distort our country's past so that the thought of the 1950s Soviet Union makes people feel only terror and disgust."
[35]
The authors said the film, set to be released on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the end of the
Battle of Stalingrad
, denigrated the memory of Russian
World War II
fighters, with the
Russian national anthem
accompanied by obscene expressions and offensive attitudes, and historically inaccurate decorations.
[34]
In addition to Russia, the film was banned in
Kazakhstan
and
Kyrgyzstan
.
[4]
Armenia
and Belarus were the only members of the
Eurasian Economic Union
to allow its release: in Armenia, it premiered in two cinemas in
Yerevan
on 25 January 2018, while, in Belarus, it premiered after an initial delay.
[36]
In Kazakhstan, the film was only screened at the Clique Festival.
[37]
Awards and honours
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]
Historical accuracy
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]
Several academics have pointed out historical inaccuracies in
The Death of Stalin
. In response, Iannucci has said: "I'm not saying it's a documentary. It
is
a fiction, but it's a fiction inspired by the truth of what it must have felt like at the time. My aim is for the audience to feel the sort of low-level anxiety that people must have [experienced] when they just went about their daily lives at the time."
[42]
Historian
Richard Overy
wrote that the film "is littered with historical errors", and called it "entertainment, but poor history". Among his examples in support of this are that:
- Molotov was not the foreign minister when Stalin died. He had been sacked in 1949, but became foreign minister again in the post-Stalin reshuffle.
- Marshal of the Soviet Union
(not Field Marshal) Zhukov was a local field commander when Stalin died, having been exiled to the provinces due to Stalin's paranoid jealousy of him. Zhukov became deputy minister of defence in the post-Stalin government, but he was not the commander of the Soviet Army in March 1953.
- Khrushchev, not Malenkov, chaired the meeting to reorganise the government after Stalin's death.
- Beria was arrested three months after Stalin died, not almost simultaneously, and that was precipitated by the
1953 East German uprising
, not a fictional massacre of mourners in Moscow, which is based on an incident in which 109 people were trampled to death during the funeral. He was executed six months after being arrested. Beria had not been head of the security forces since 1946.
[43]
- Svetlana was not sent to Vienna. She remained in the Soviet Union working as an academic and translator before ultimately defecting to America in 1967 and becoming a naturalised citizen of the United States in 1978.
Overy wrote that those killed in the
Great Purge
or sent to
Gulags
"deserve a film that treats their history with greater discretion and historical understanding". Iannucci said he "chose to tone down real-life absurdity" to make the work more believable.
[44]
[43]
The
Radio Moscow
portion of the film is a retelling of an apocryphal story first recorded in
Solomon Volkov
's book
Testimony
(1979), which Volkov claimed were the memoirs of
Dmitri Shostakovich
. However, in
Testimony
, Maria Yudina is awakened in the middle of the night in 1943 or 1944, not 1953, and brought in to record, and the recording brings Stalin to tears, moving him to pay Yudina 20,000
roubles
in appreciation. The story served as the loose basis for
The Stalin Sonata
, a 1989 BBC radio play by
David Zane Mairowitz
. While, like the film, the original story has Yudina send a letter to Stalin, its contents are different, as she supposedly wrote to thank Stalin for the money, adding that she would donate it to the restoration of a church and would be praying for his sins to be forgiven.
[45]
While the real Yudina was fired on one occasion for her ideological disagreements with Stalin's regime, her family was not killed.
Dr. Lydia Timashuk is described in the film as a willing accomplice in the
Doctors' plot
, which is discussed as a past, rather than current, event, and is portrayed as an eager agent in the roundup of Moscow doctors for Stalin's care, who, in a deleted scene, dies in a mine field around Stalin's dacha after her sexual advances to Beria are rejected. In reality, she had no involvement in the events surrounding Stalin's death, and was an unwilling pawn in the Doctors' plot, after which she became embittered by the labels of informer and anti-Semite that followed her until her death in 1983.
[46]
Bogdan Kobulov is depicted in the film as being shot dead during Beria's arrest by officers acting under orders given by Zhukov. In reality, he was arrested and executed alongside Beria months later.
[47]
In the film,
Vasily Stalin
and
Anatoly Tarasov
are seen at a practice of the
Soviet Union national ice hockey team
, which has been depleted by a recent plane crash. There
really was a plane crash
in which 11 players on the
VVS Moscow
ice hockey team died, and star player
Vsevolod Bobrov
really did survive because he missed the flight, but the crash happened on 5 January 1950, more than three years before Stalin's death.
The
NKVD
was superseded by the
MVD
in 1946, almost seven years before the death of Stalin.
[48]
Samuel Goff of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the
University of Cambridge
, though opining that the film's historical discrepancies could be justified as helping to focus the drama, wrote that turning Beria into "an avatar of the obscenities of the Stalinist state" missed the chance to say "anything about the actual mechanisms of power", and argued that Iannucci's approach to satire was not transferable to something like Stalinism, and the film is "fundamentally ill-equipped to locate the comedy inherent to Stalinism, missing marks it doesn't know it should be aiming for."
[49]
See also
[
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