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‘The Death of Stalin': Armando Iannucci Explores the Nature of Power Through Black Comedy

Long before Donald Trump became president, Italian-born “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci kept an eye on the news from Italy under the leadership of far-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and ...
Digital Spy

First trailer for Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin is basically The Thick of It in Russia

If you've ever wanted to know what The Thick of It would be like set in Russia, Armando Iannucci's new movie solves that question. eOne has released the first trailer for Iannucci's The Death of ...
The Tufts Daily

'Death of Stalin' provides commentary on authoritarianism, cheap laughs, but not much else

"The Death of Stalin" (2017), Armando Iannucci’s second feature film, portrays the struggle for power following Stalin’s death over control of the USSR between Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), ...
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Jason Isaacs Is at His Most Hilarious in This Sharp, Pitch-Dark Political Satire From the Creator of ‘Veep’

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
Time

Historical Notes: The Death of Stalin’s Son

Enraged by a quarrel-with his fellow inmates, a Russian prisoner burst from his barracks room in the Nazi concen tration camp at Sachsenhausen, 30 miles northwest of Berlin. It was the evening of ...