Posted on 04/13/2019 4:38:59 PM PDT by Twotone
Stalin tactics are not dead, they are known under many other names.
It’s with Showtime.
Excellent movie and well acted. Especially the guy that played Beria. What a monster he was.
Ha ha, I wonder when they will make “Stalin...the Musical”. Ha ha.
Excellent movie. Like several others, I found it accidentally and have wondered how & why the release of such a good film received so little attention. Did the big distributors not want it? Perhaps they thought it was too “intellectual” for the modern movie audience, half of whom don’t know who Stalin was, with the democrat half of the remainder thinking Stalin was the good guy.
It’s a five stasi film.
I did some reading as well, and the vast majority was true. There were some typical Hollywood plot devices like time dilation (in real life it took them about 6 months to get around to killing Beria), but the majority of it was quite factual.
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You are right and the casting was great. With the exception of Molotov everyone got their character just right. Zhukov, Stalin’s son and Beria are like real. Buscemi did great as Khruschev and Stalin himself were really good.
I studied Soviet and Eastern European governments when I was attending at the time an anti-Communist university (my, things have changed in 40 years).
I thought “The Death of Stalin” was great and highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about how cult of personality totalitarian systems, such as communism, really work. While it wasn’t entirely historically accurate (Beria met his end about nine months after Stalin’s death, not immediately after the funeral as depicted in the movie), it was close enough.
BTW, the body count in this movie is far greater than any Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson movie.
I see what you did there.
dark, funny.
“So, comrades, in Lenin’s immortal words, ‘What is to be done?’”
Films on the topic of communism are rare in comparison to the Nazis in the west. Generally they come and go like this one. I haven’t seen it but imagine I will at some point. I have seen one called the Inner Circle which is about Stalin’s film projectionist and if you liked this one you probably will like it as well. Another commie topic film that most Freepers who have seen it have highly praised is Other People’s Lives.
Outstanding film. Funny and smart.
Incredible film, should be on everyone’s “must watch” list.
Although the scope of events were compressed for time, the overwhelming majority of what is presented on film actually took place. And while comedic, it is truly terrifying because it accurately presents what it was and is like to live under communism... just ask the North Koreans.
While the bkack humor is very funny, The Death of Stalin is an extremely valuable history lesson for everyone fooolishly longing for “socialism”, and the “good old”, bad old days of Soviet, Stalinist Russia.
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