The Death of Stalin trailer: The Thick of It's Armando Iannucci turns his gaze on Soviet Russia
Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, and Simon Russell Beale all star
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Your support makes all the difference.Armando Iannucci has reached the peaks of political satire with the likes of The Thick of It, In the Loop, and Veep.
Now, he turns his gaze to Soviet Russia with his new film The Death of Stalin, gathering round a supreme cast of acting greats to adapt Fabien Nury's graphic novel of the same name.
The film chronicles the events that transpired in the immediate aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953, as all those around him threw themselves into a desperate scramble for power.
The cast features the likes of Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Andrew Riseborough, Rupert Friend, and Jason Isaacs - a combination of talents destined for some intense hilarity.
This marks the second feature film from Iannucci, his debut being In the Loop, itself a spin-off of his beloved BBC series The Thick of It. So, expect similar levels of intense cursing and cutting insults in The Death of Stalin. What a treat.
The Death of Stalin will screen at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, before hitting UK cinemas on 20 October.
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