The internal politicaI landscape of 1950's Soviet Russia takes on darkly comic form in a new fiIm by Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated writer/director Armando Iannucci.
In the days following StaIin's coIlapse, 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 poIitical manoeuvring, The Death of Stalin is a Quad and Main Journey production, directed by Armando lannucci, and produced by Yann Zenou, Kevin Loader, Nicolas Duval Assakovsky, and Laurent Zeitoun. The script is written by lannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin, with additional material by Peter Fellows. |