Tuesday, August 26, 2025

The Death of Stalin

 

This is a  another comic book movie! It is a French graphic novel -worked on by Schiender and Armando Iannucci

By the way Schneider should have been the Mule in Foundation. 

So I have seen a lot of this on YouTube I know the story somewhat. I cannot say I was surprised 

It has an eclectic cast Buscemi, and Trabor, and Michael Palin. Oh and Paul Whitehouse as well. This is the first time I can remember him in dramatic film 

I think a Yorkshireman playing Zhukov makes sense. Trabor as Jewish is fine. I have always liked his work Buscemi playing a man from Ukraine as a man from New Jersey I am a bit skeptical about

The location shoots are beautiful

I liked it, it's fine. 

I  think this film in making it plain that the sexual violence in the Purges has been underplayed probably by historians . At least for my GCSE 

 The house keeper being put on a truck by the NKVD, the casual abduction and almost flippant  murder of the NKVD is well observed too


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