The following review makes reference to the 2017 film The Death of Stalin, and does not contain spoilers of any type.

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Year: 2017
Category: Political Satire, Black Comedy.
Director: Armando Iannucci.
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Dermot Crowley, Jason Isaacs, Rupert Friend, Olga Kurylenko, Paddy Considine, Adrian McLoughlin, Paul Whitehouse, Paul Chahidi, Tom Brooke, Justin Edwards, Richard Brake, Jonathan Aris.

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Plot

On the night of March 2, 1953, Joseph Stalin, dictator, tyrant and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, died. And if you play your cards well, the position can now be yours. A satire on the days before the funeral of the father of the nation.

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Opinion

The film basically narrates the events of the night before Stalin's death, and the days that followed. The death of the dictator brings with it the fierce struggle of the leaders of the Soviet Union, and the film tries to show those events but not in a cold and hard way, but through satire and black comedy.

The film is not a totally faithful or realistic work of events, nor should it be taken as a film of a historiographical nature, that would be an error, the film must be approached by the viewer with the intention of seeing it as conceived by its creators, as a film that turns a political situation quite complex, cruel and despotic, into an element of entertainment and humor, with success and failures.

Some scenes are very well done, while in others you can see the exaggeration both in the performances and in the general approach of those specific scenes, however, the film does not leave at any time to transport the viewer to that reality, and it does in a convincing way, because although it is a comedy, the reality of what was the government of Stalin and its consequences are present.

The humor of the film will not cause the viewer to die of laughter at any time, however, if it provokes a smile and some good moments, not to mention that it remains entertained during its 107 minutes, especially if the spectator does not know the events.

An interesting fact is that the film was censored in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, countries that considered the film was a "unfriendly act by the British intellectual class" and part of an "anti-Russian information war".

Although this is the first Armando Iannucci movie that I see, I think his work in this film was decent and acceptable. The performances of Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale and Jeffrey Tambor are indispensable to give the film greater closeness to the audience, and in general, they do their work well despite the fact that in some scenes the viewer can appreciate some overacting.

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