![]() What happens next is so bizarre that you wouldn’t even believe that it was all true. Beria himself aides Nikita by losing his head on the party members and threatening to expose them with the documents that he has on them. His efforts get a shot in the arm when Beria’s men kill 1500 people who arrived in Moscow to attend Stalin’s funeral. Desperate, he hatches a plot to silence Beria once and for all and starts recruiting the other members of the committee to support his bidding. Nikita finds himself pushed to the wall and realizes that he might soon be killed. Beria who already knew the pieces, his way around them and shared a good rapport with Georgy quickly starts seizing power. Nikita, who for so long had been ignored and sidelined, suddenly finds his voice and makes his presence felt. The scene is then populated by Stalin’s children and a few more key players who would then plot, scheme and connive with each other on who would replace and how best to take advantage of the death of the man. A snap from the movie “The Death of Stalin” These five make up the committee that is to then decide if they should call a doctor or not? They could now but the problem was that they had either killed or put every competent doctor in Moscow in prison as Stalin believed that they were plotting to assassinate him. The next three to arrive are Lazar Kaganovich (Dermot Crowley), Anastas Mikoyan (Paul Whitehouse), and Nicolai Bulganin (Paul Chahidi). Nikita, meanwhile, has arrived in his pajamas to be there ahead of the others. Georgy breaks down calling Stalin irreplaceable and then in the very next moment presses his authority over the Union. He was always considered to be a “nobody”. While Georgy was the next in line to be the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita found himself in the elite company just because he could crack up Stalin with his jokes. The next to arrive was Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor) and Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi). Upon his arrival, he first looks to clear out the documents that were not favorable to him and again, not call a doctor. He was responsible for the death of millions and yet was quickly falling off Stalin’s grace before his death. He took pleasure in tormenting the masses and was later tried for raping 347 women including a girl as young as 7 years. He was Stalin’s spymaster and did all of his dirty work. The first person to reach the spot is Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale) a weasel-like figure who resembles “The Penguin” from the Bat-Man comics. The staff doesn’t call a doctor but instead call the politburo. ![]() Stalin is discovered lying in a puddle of his own urine after the attack. See our Privacy Policy A snap from the movie “The Death of Stalin” We see the director lose his mind over seconds as he waits to call back the dictator after exactly 17 minutes as he was ordered to. The director of the radio station forces the band to re-perform the concerto and even pulls in crowds from the roads to make the ambiance similar to what it might have sounded like to Stalin when he heard it on the radio. The problem was, the concerto was playing live and was not recorded. Before the attack we see Stalin call up a radio station and ask for a recording of a concerto that was playing at that time one that he enjoyed immensely. The two guards posted outside his office didn’t dare to go in and check as they were afraid of inviting his wrath and losing their lives. Stalin had a heart attack and fell on the floor of his office with a thud. I cannot review this film without discussing the events that it documents as they are at the heart of all that is best about the film. The Death of Stalin is a sarcastic comedy chronicling the aforementioned events of which some are so outrageous that you wouldn’t even believe that they were true. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ironically it would also bring down the man who was instrumental in helping Stalin orchestrate and execute his nefarious plans for the regime, Lavrentiy Beria. This sudden incident set into motion a series of events that would not only determine the next leader of the Soviet Union but would also put an end to one of history’s bloodiest reins. For the next 5 days, he suffered and eventually died on 5th March 1953. On 1st March 1953, Joseph Stalin suffered a heart attack and dropped on the floor of his office. Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Dermot Crowley, Paul Whitehouse, Jason IsaacsĪ snap from the movie “The Death of Stalin”. ![]()
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