He finds and steals the note from Yudina, and then begins to steal papers from a safe, which he hands to his men outside of the building. In actuality the crash happened on 5 January 1950, over three years before Stalin’s death. Historian Richard Overy has written that the film "is littered with historical errors", including: Overy was most critical that the film did not appropriately honour those who died during Stalin's leadership. My aim is for the audience to feel the sort of low-level anxiety that people must have when they just went about their daily lives at the time."[32]. „The Death Of Stalin“ handelt von den Machtkämpfen, die rund um Stalins Tod im März 1953 im engsten Führungszirkel von Partei und Staat ausbrachen, von Verkommenheit, Skrupellosigkeit und nackter Angst der Politiker im Umkreis Stalins, namentlich Lawrenti Beria (Chef des NKPD, gespielt von Simon Russell Beale), Nikita Chruschtschow (1. In the movie Vasily Stalin and Anatoly Tarasov deal with a depleted Soviet Union national ice hockey team, complete with a reference to their star player Vsevolod Bobrov, who missed the flight. [25], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 243 reviews, with an average rating of 8.06/10. Joseph Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at the Kuntsevo Dacha aged 74 after suffering a stroke. The death of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin throws the Soviet Union into comic chaos as his ambitious but addled ministers maneuver to succeed him. Now alone, Stalin receives his copy of the Concerto and puts it on. The film was banned in Russia and Kyrgyzstan for allegedly mocking the countries' past and making fun of its leaders. And Iannucci is a superb ringmaster. [21], Fearing the encouragement of rivals within the ranks of the Party of Labour of Albania, neither Prime Minister Enver Hoxha nor Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu risked traveling to Moscow to attend the funeral, with Hoxha instead pledging eternal allegiance to the late Soviet leader. Interview with Marina Drozdova. 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After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly dies. When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke - the political gears begin to turn, plunging the super-state into darkness, uncertainty and near civil war. "[29], Raphael Abraham, writing for the Financial Times, wrote, "As this coven of vampiric apparatchiks feasts on the remains of Stalinism, the unremitting blackness of the situation at times threatens a full comedy eclipse. He was given a state funeral with four days of national mourning declared. Khrushchev and his allies find Beria guilty of treason, sexual assault, and being a paedophile rapist, and sentence him to be shot. 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