The Death of Stalin
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Will we finally get a Stalin meme to go with all the Hitler downfall vids?
Anyway, Armando I. has a good track record, but this one has 'pet project' written all over it, which is never a good sign.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I've always felt a bit sorry for malenkov, everyone forgets him when going through Soviet leaders. An auld tankie I used to know said it was - in pre-internet days - hard to find a picture of him
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
That's quite a cast:
- Adrian McLoughlin as Joseph Stalin
- Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov
- Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev
- Olga Kurylenko as Maria Yudina
- Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov
- Simon Russell Beale as Lavrentiy Beria
- Paddy Considine as Comrade Andreyev
- Andrea Riseborough as Svetlana Stalin
- Rupert Friend as Vasily Stalin
- Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov
- Paul Whitehouse as Anastas Mikoyan
- Justin Edwards as Spartak Sokolov
- Richard Brake as Tarasov
- Jonathan Aris as Mezhnikov
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Musician
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
They could have found a space for David Mitchell
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
He did get namechecked in one of the Molesworth books (thus making him one of the immortals).
seventh bullet
sovietwave
Paul Whitehouse as Mikoyan?
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Have you been on social media other than urban? It's overrun with teenage cos-playing tankies from Shitsville, Tennessee posting approving memes about Stalin and gulags. Shower of wankers sitting in shit.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I have observed the phenomenon.
Have you been slathering on the Olay? You seem to look...more fresh faced and vigorous.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
While your implied offer is flattering, I regret to inform you that I do not swing that way.
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
The sad thing about this Ianucci has to go back to the 1950s soviet era to do some decent satire . Current western politics simply defies the genre .
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
He breaks the bald/hair/bald/hair pattern the Russians seem so keen on.
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
I'm disappointed Mark Strongs not in this . Would be right up his street .
Saw this 'comedy' recently -- really wasn't very good -- with David Suchet as Beria complete with dubious Irish accent...
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Sue's link led me to Yevtushenko's poem Stalin's Heirs, which led me to his:
"I first visited Moscow in 1951. I saw what I wanted to see and wrote a book called Journey into the Future (the title taken from Lincoln Steffens’ remark, “I have seen the future and it works”). With a whole generation of idealists I was caught in the web of Stalinism.
But disenchantment with the Soviet brand of Communism slowly crept upon me, and in 1962-63 I spent eight months travelling in the USSR, determined to write another, more truthful, book. I called it They Eat Their Babies in Russia."
Bob Gould archive. Heirs of Stalin, October 16, 2003
"I first visited Moscow in 1951. I saw what I wanted to see and wrote a book called Journey into the Future (the title taken from Lincoln Steffens’ remark, “I have seen the future and it works”). With a whole generation of idealists I was caught in the web of Stalinism.
But disenchantment with the Soviet brand of Communism slowly crept upon me, and in 1962-63 I spent eight months travelling in the USSR, determined to write another, more truthful, book. I called it They Eat Their Babies in Russia."
Bob Gould archive. Heirs of Stalin, October 16, 2003
bubblesmcgrath
Well-Known Member
I'd definitely like to see this...
No! this is just decadent western propaganda.Is uncle Joe dead?
seventh bullet
sovietwave
Is uncle Joe dead?
Leader of the World Proletariat/Father of the Peoples/Greatest Genius of Mankind/Coryphaeus of Science. He hated the western 'uncle.' Cultural/language differences and misunderstandings.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Reviewing very well The Death of Stalin
Out on the 20th
Out on the 20th
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Disappointing.
Iannucci by numbers. Let’s get Kruschev to swear a lot! Let’s get Michael Palin to play that one role he does! Did you know Stalin wasn’t very nice, and that people were scared of him?
It’s not terrible, there are some good jokes and funny scenes, it just should have been a lot better.
Iannucci by numbers. Let’s get Kruschev to swear a lot! Let’s get Michael Palin to play that one role he does! Did you know Stalin wasn’t very nice, and that people were scared of him?
It’s not terrible, there are some good jokes and funny scenes, it just should have been a lot better.
Watched it tonight and enjoyed it. Some good comedy writing.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Is David Schneider that tosspot who calls himself a 'social media expert' and does Guardian-sponsored seminars on how to use twitter?
