The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci (creator of 'VEEP'). Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweeby Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor of 'ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT'), the wily Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), and the sadistic secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale of 'PENNY DREADFUL'). But as they bumble, brawl, and backstab their way to the top, just who is running the government?
"It's often raucously hilarious, neatly crafted, sometimes visually striking, packed with excellent performances and abrasively profane dialogue. Most significant of all, it's true." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Closer in spirit to Dr. Strangelove than, say Mel Brooks's The Producers." - Christian Science Monitor
"Should please moviegoers who appreciate humor that's significantly more sophisticated than we've become accustomed to encountering on the big screen these days." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Iannucci’s most complex and almost nihilistic rendering of what politics is: A team of bumbling and weak-minded people who lack any real conviction other than a desire for power and position." - Vox
"Cutting-edge political satire worthy of Russian dramatists Gogol or Bulgakov - farcical and frightening. Throat-cutting edge, you might say." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Iannucci did not intend The Death of Stalin to be a direct commentary on the Trump presidency, and it should not be taken as one. But as they say: First time tragedy, second time farce." - The Atlantic
"Never mocks historical horrors. Instead, the broadness, the outrageousness, with which it dramatizes the banality of evil - and bureaucracy, too - is what makes it so very chilling." - Austin Chronicle
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