Which year saw the end of the Korean War, the death of Josef Stalin and the first televised Academy Awards Ceremony?
The Death of Stalin The Death of Stalin The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows. It stars Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, and Jeffrey Tambor, with Olga Kurylenko, Paul Chahidi, Dermot Crowley, Adrian McLoughlin, and Paul Whitehouse appearing in support roles. Based on the French graphic novel "La mort de Staline," the film depicts the power struggle following the death of Soviet revolutionary and politician Joseph Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) in 1953. "The Death of
The Death of Stalin released by eOne Films in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2017 and IFC Films in the United States on 9 March 2018. The film was screened in the Platform section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. "The Death of Stalin" grossed $8 million in the United States and Canada and $16.6 million in other territories (including $7.3 million in the UK), for a worldwide total of $24.6 million. Nikolai Starikov, head of the Russian Great Fatherland Party, said "The Death of Stalin" was an "unfriendly act by the British intellectual class" and part of an "anti-Russian information war".