I loved this movie and totally unsurprised it was banned in Russia. The death of Stalin is a no holds barred historical satire. Adressing in a comically dark undertone the purges by Stalin and the NKVD in the post-war Soviet Union. Performances of note Steve Buscemi as the paranoid Khrushchev, Jason Isaacs as the uncompromising Zhukov (with unexpected yet hilarious northern accent) and Simon Russel as the head of the NKVD who scared me just watching him. Wish there were more films out there like this one. What a triumph!

To start off this is one of the best movies i've seen in a while. It's a fresh breath when it comes down to movies about history and Russia as a whole. Not that there are this many movies about Jozef Stalin or the Red army and their period in history. It instantly showed us the fear people had for and the power Stalin had. Some visual gags like men falling off the stairs in the background etc. actually made me giggle a bit, slapstick has been dead for a while yet in this amount it worked. The movie gave ma Doctor Strangelove feeling when it came down to the comedy and laughing about a serious topic. As a movie fanatic I could never have imagined a movie about Stalin his (surprising) natural death to be this funny. It's not a stupid Adam Sandler esc. comedy but a well written smart dark-comedy. The costumes and acting performances delivered by the respected actors are phenomenal. I think that the best thing is that for the first time in my memory Steve Buscemi doesn't die in this movie. It's funny how overacting can sometimes work in this movie, it's well established how Stalin his "Friends" are scared of him and this gets them in some hilarious shenanigans for the first half of the movie. As for the writing it's great, some clever banter as they struggle to get his body out of the room. This tone continues for the rest of the movie. Now to conclude this to be classic : acting : Great, Costumes and sets : Amazing, Cinematography : Good , Directing : For a relativly unknown director a masterpiece, Writing : As said before without a doubt the best thing about the movie.

Well some of it is not historically accurate, but if you want a quick, dirty & rough idea of the period when he ruled then it was tolerable. Somewhat dark, sort of comedic lines and scenes to make the subject palatable for most viewers. Stalin was basically equivalent to an amorphous melding of the best (notorious) attributes of Putin, Kim Jong-un, Erdogan, & Trump.

This is one of those films that will stay with you for a long time, if not forever. Nothing about it is excessive; everything fits so well together: from the acting, to the cinematography, pace, editing, music, down to the closing credits.What's marvelous about it is that it's as true to the historical timeline as can be and it's written pretty straight, but because it's a true story, and it's such a horrible one that it plays as a dark comedy, as well as a farce. Except...it's not! If it was a work of fiction, one would say that it would be almost a 'morality play' but again...it's not. It's a film all history, politics and film buffs should see. The only reason why I'm giving it 9 stars and not 10 is because it was too short. Another 10 minutes on the film which I'm sure was shaved off, would have possibly offered better story arcs and details.