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The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire black comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider and Ian Martin with Peter Fellows. . Based on the French graphic novel La Mort de Staline (2010–2012), the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the members of the Soviet Politburo following the death of leader Joseph Stalin ...
Stalin is a 1992 American political drama television film starring Robert Duvall as Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Produced by HBO and directed by Ivan Passer , it tells the story of Stalin's rise to power until his death and spans the period from 1917 to 1953.
Ivan the Terrible was Eisenstein's final film. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin commissioned the film in early 1941; production was delayed by the beginning of World War II, and ultimately did not start until April 1943. The majority of the film was shot in Alma-Ata; several scenes were shot in Moscow.
In the 1958 CBS production of "The Plot to Kill Stalin" for Playhouse 90, Beria was portrayed by E. G. Marshall. In the 1992 HBO movie Stalin, Roshan Seth was cast as Beria. In the 1999 film adaptation Animal Farm based on George Orwell's novel, Napoleon's bodyguard Pincher represents Beria.
Alliluyeva was portrayed by Joanna Roth in the HBO's 1992 television film Stalin [45] and Andrea Riseborough in the 2017 satirical film The Death of Stalin. [46] Alliluyeva is the subject of the 2015 biography Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Canadian writer Rosemary Sullivan. [47]
Joseph Stalin Иосиф Сталин იოსებ სტალინი Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union In office 3 April 1922 – 16 October 1952 [a] Preceded by Vyacheslav Molotov (as Responsible Secretary) Succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev (as First Secretary) Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union [b] In ...
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н; 19 January [O.S. 7 January] 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Soviet secret police official who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolay Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria.
[11] Film director Grigori Roshal described the film as "an epic legend, a sharp satire, a fiery pamphlet about enemies and a sincere story of simple Soviet people." [ 12 ] André Bazin , who researched Stalinist cinema, regarded the film as a piece of propaganda, remarking that "the only difference between Stalin and Tarzan is that films about ...