In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage. As a result, when ...

Stalin’s death has been the subject of conjecture — and conspiracy theories — over the years, with some asserting he was poisoned under the orders of KGB chief Lavrenty Beria to prevent the ...

'The Death of Stalin,' the latest film from 'Veep' creator and 'In the Loop' director Armando Iannucci, satirizes the mad scramble for power that followed Joseph Stalin's death in the 1950s.

The Death of Stalin plays like a Shakespeare history play crossbred with a particularly profane Marx Brothers comedy. As Stalin lies dying in his own urine, his comrades try not to step in it.

In fact, Iannucci's crackerjack cast -- led by Steve Buscemi as a frat-bro-flavored Nikita Khrushchev; Jeffrey Tambor as a boobish Georgy Malenkov; ... THE DEATH OF STALIN. 5 stars, out of 5.

The cast is uniformly excellent, including Andrea Riseborough as Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, and Rupert Friend as her unstable brother, Vasily, who looks upon the occasion of his father's funeral ...

THE DEATH OF STALIN, oddly, is a comedy, a mix of political satire and farce built around the days before and after the death of Josef Stalin. Anything about Stalin, the Soviet Union’s brutal longtime ...

Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, and Paul Whitehouse have all joined the cast of Veep creator Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin.

EXCLUSIVE: An all-star cast has boarded Armando Iannucci‘s The Death Of Stalin.Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Timothy Dalton, Toby Kebbel, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale ...

The Death of Stalin 2018, R, 107 min. Directed by Armando Iannucci. Starring Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough ...

The result was one of the most darkly funny films of 2018, “The Death of Stalin.” In an accelerated, condensed retelling of true events, Joseph Stalin drops dead in Moscow in 1953, and his ...