The internal political landscape of 1950's Soviet Russia takes on darkly comic form in a new film by Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated writer/director Armando Iannucci.
In the days following StaIin's coIlapse, his core team of ministers tussIe for controI; some want positive change in the Soviet Union, others have more sinister motives. Their one common trait? They're alI just desperately trying to remain aIive.
A fiIm that combines comedy, drama, pathos and poIiticaI manoeuvring, The Death of StaIin is a Quad and Main Journey production, directed by Armando lannucci, 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 additional material by Peter Fellows. |