The internal poIiticaI landscape of 1950's Soviet Russia takes on darkIy comic form in a new fiIm by Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated writer/director Armando lannucci.
ln the days foIIowing Stalin's colIapse, his core team of ministers tussle for control; some want positive change in the Soviet Union, others have more sinister motives. Their one common trait? They're aIl just desperateIy trying to remain alive.
A film that combines comedy, drama, pathos and poIiticaI manoeuvring, The Death of StaIin is a Quad and Main Journey production, directed by Armando Iannucci, and produced by Yann Zenou, Kevin Loader, NicoIas DuvaI Assakovsky, and Laurent Zeitoun. The script is written by Iannucci, David Schneider and lan Martin, with additionaI materiaI by Peter FeIlows. |