History Trivia / TheDeathOfStalin

* SleeperHit: At least in America, where it became one of the few films released by IFC Films to get a wide release. [[note]]They only give films a wide release if it does well in limited release, for example: ''Film/{{Boyhood}}'' or ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding''.[[/note]]

* {{Corpsing}}: After the committee members have moved Stalin to his bedroom but are struggling to arrange him on the bed, Adrian [=McLoughlin=] (Stalin) has a visible smirk on his face in several angles of the scene.

* BigNameFan: Creator/KieronGillen was such a fan of the movie that he had Lavrenti Beria appear in his "ComicBook/{{Uber}}" [[spoiler: just to make it clear he also died with Stalin.]]

* ActorInspiredElement: Creator/JasonIsaacs decided to have a large scar put on his face to show that Georgi Zhukov had been to war. The real Zhukov didn't have a scar on his face.
** The reason they couldn't put all of Zhukov's medals on Isaacs is that, according to him, the amount shown in the film was the absolute maximum that fit on ''his'' chest – the real man was wider in the chest and shoulders.
** It was also Jason Isaacs's decision to play Zhukov with a [[AccentAdaptation Yorkshire accent]] (though he himself was born in Liverpool) because "The bluntest people I know are Yorkshiremen."

** The fate of Dr. Lydia Timashuk, whom the Presidium hires to get some doctors for Stalin (and whom they intended to use as a scapegoat and execute in the event that the doctors failed to save him). Beria seemingly lets her run away, only for her to be blown up by a mine as she tries to escape into the woods.

* BigNameFan: Creator/KieronGillen was such a fan of the movie that he had Lavrenti Beria appear in his ComicBook/Uber [[spoiler: just to make it clear he also died with Stalin.]]

* FakeRussian: Most of the main cast are British. The exceptions are Creator/JeffreyTambor and Creator/SteveBuscemi (both American), Dermot Crowley (Irish), and Creator/OlgaKurylenko (Ukrainian-French, she has Russian ancestry and was a citizen of the Soviet Union).

** It was also Jason Isaacs's decision to play Zhukov with a Yorkshire accent (though he himself was born in Liverpool) because "The bluntest people I know are Yorkshiremen."

** When Vasily arrives, the Politburo goes to get him as in the movie, but Khrushchev is worried about breaching protocol and leaving Stalin's corpse unguarded. He calls the representatives of the steel workers to replace them, but they are unavailable, so they have a bunch of cooks dress like steel workers and do it instead.

-->'''Brezhnev''': I'm ''this'' close to examining the contents of your fucking stomach.

* ImageSource: This film provides the page image for:
** FourStarBadass (Marshal Zhukov)

* AllStarCast: Creator/SteveBuscemi, Creator/SimonRussellBeale, Creator/JeffreyTambor, Creator/JasonIsaacs, Creator/MichaelPalin, Creator/AndreaRiseborough, Creator/OlgaKurylenko, and Creator/RupertFriend all headline the film.