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
