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* BoomHeadshot: A lot of people get killed in this manner, with their last words often being “Long live Stalin!”
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* BoomHeadshot: BlackComedy: The whole movie. The scramble for power in the wake of Stalin's death is played for farcical comedy like some pitch-black version of ''The Office''.
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* TheScapegoat: It is debatable whether a single person in the NKVD prisons is actually guilty of anything.
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** It is debatable whether a single person in the NKVD prisons is actually guilty of anything.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Molotov seems mild mannered and disarmingly chipper, and is played by the lovable Creator/MichaelPalin, but is willing to insult his wife to save his own skin.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Molotov seems mild mannered and disarmingly chipper, and is played by the lovable Creator/MichaelPalin, but is willing to insult and abandon his wife to save his own skin.
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** [[spoiler: Beria]] is killed this way, [[AintTooProudToBeg begging]] [[VillainousBreakdown for his life]].
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Russia, 1953. Josef Stalin has ruled the USSR with an iron fist for two three decades. The people live in constant fear of his state apparatus. His minions are literal ass-kissers out to save their own skin. [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath And then he dies]]. In the aftermath, various individuals must fight to secure his vacant seat. This includes:
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* TalkToTheFist: Zhukov Decks Vasily the moment he sees him, calling him a disgrace to the uniform.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Beria]] seriously loses his cool before [[BoomHeadshot he gets shot in the head]].
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* SpitefulSpit: Vasily tries to do this when he's tackled and held down. It backfires and the spit hits his own forehead.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: Before the other committee members arrive, Beria goes through Stalin’s safe to destroy incriminating documents.
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* LifeSavingMisfortune: Beria lets slip to Malenkov and Khrushchev that Molotov is on the latest kill list. He’s saved when Stalin’s death cancels that order.
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* WeHaveReserves: Soviet soldiers get shot left and right.
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* AlliterativeName: '''S'''vetlana '''S'''talin.
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Russia, 1953. Josef Stalin has ruled with an iron fist for two decades. The people live in constant fear of his state apparatus. His minions are literal ass-kissers out to save their own skin. [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath And then he dies]]. In the aftermath, various individuals must fight to secure his vacant seat. This includes:
* EvilWearsBlack: Beria wears a black suit for the majority of the film.
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* ThePurge: Several are carried out throughout the movie and the film covers the tail end of Stalins final purge organised by Lavrentiy Beria, the subsequent purges carried out by Beria on his own as Stalin dies, [[spoiler: and the counter-purge against Beria and his cronies as Khrushchev and the others view for power themselves and try to survive becoming victims themselves]].
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* PuppetKing: Malenkov is quickly established to be a weak and indecisive ruler, and Beria tries to use this to his advantage.
* ThePurge: Several are carried out throughout the movie and the film covers the tail end ofStalins Stalin’s final purge organised by Lavrentiy Beria, the subsequent purges carried out by Beria on his own as Stalin dies, [[spoiler: and the counter-purge against Beria and his cronies as Khrushchev and the others view for power themselves and try to survive becoming victims themselves]].
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* TheCoatsAreOff: Zhukov sheds his coat, in SlowMotion no less, upon arriving at Stalin’s funeral.
* HappinessIsMandatory: Malenkov, Khrushchev, Beria, and Molotov have some very forced laughter whenever Stalin makes a joke.
* HopeSpot: Stalin briefly recovers, much to the joy of the committee members, but dies soon afterwards.
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** The director of Radio Moscow when Stalin personally calls him and asks for a recording of the night’s performance...only to realize that they didn’t record it.
** Everyone's reaction to Stalin's death.
** The director of Radio Moscow when Stalin personally calls him and asks for a recording of the night’s performance...only to realize that they didn’t record it.
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* StateSec: The NKVD, who routinely round up people in the middle of the night and have them killed.
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''The Death of Stalin'' is a 2017 period comedy-drama directed by Creator/ArmandoIannucci.
Creator/ArmandoIannucci, based on a French graphic novel.
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* {{Understatement}}: Beria says that Stalin is "feeling unwell," when he's clearly dead from a stroke.
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* {{Understatement}}: Beria says that Stalin is "feeling unwell," when he's clearly dead from a stroke.
stroke. Although it's partly this and partly InsistentTerminology, since everyone is still so afraid of Stalin that they're initially afraid to come right out and say the obvious in case it turns out he's ''not'' dead and they get into a lot of trouble because of it.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: {{Invoked}}. Almost all of the actors are British and American and everybody speaks in their normal accents, which is intentional as to highlight the absurdity of the situation.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: {{Invoked}}. Almost all of the actors are British and American and everybody speaks in their normal accents, which is intentional as to highlight the absurdity of the situation. Particularly Creator/JasonIsaacs, who put on a Yorkshire accent to signify Zhukov's blunt manner, as the only person who was able to behave in such a manner towards Stalin.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Beria, the man who orchestrated the Great Terror and has the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on his hands, pushes through reforms to liberalise the Soviet state, put a stay on executions, and free low-level political prisoners. He does NOT do this out of the kindness of his heart and he is still murdering people left and right to secure his own position.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Beria, the man who orchestrated the Great Terror and has the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on his hands, pushes through reforms to liberalise the Soviet state, put a stay on executions, and free low-level political prisoners. He does NOT do this out of the kindness of his heart and as he is still murdering people left and right to secure his own position.position, but these reforms make himself look good and are necessary for the sake of progress. Khrushchev complains that ''he'' was the liberalising reformer and that Beria is just stealing his ideas, and everyone sees Beria as a {{Hypocrite}} given that he is freeing prisoners he locked up and sparing people from his own firing squads, but ironically Beria may be the most effective leader precisely BECAUSE he is such a ruthlessly efficient evil bastard [[spoiler: and the other characters ultimately kill him out of revenge and to save their own necks as much as anything else]].
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* BadBoss: Stalin has numerous underlings slaughtered and Beria carries it out, and Beria has no trouble executing his own people on a whim either, the stand-out example being having a man sent to death for '''[[DisproportionateRetribution stuttering]].''' Everyone else is willing to have subordinates executed to save their own skin as well, but Beria takes the cake as he shows the least amount of hesitation and is the one who actually organises the executions.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Pretty much everyone here is accurately portrayed as a murderous {{Jerkass}} and it's just a matter of some being worse than others. However, Beria is the most ruthless and evil of the lot as he is a bully and {{Sadist}} who kills hundreds of people before the film is over and has already killed tens of thousands more as part of Stalins purges, and on top of that is clearly shown to be a serial rapist. He actually is the most pragmatic and efficient player and happily institutes reforms that the Union sorely needs, but it is all to make himself look good and get the country working better, not at all out of genuine kindness, and he is still preparing to kill scores more people to cement and consolidate his power.
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* DirtyCoward: Everybody has shades of this, but Molotov takes the cake as when his own wife is arrested for treason he throws her under the bus and insists she was a filthy traitor... until she shows up alive and well back at his home with Beria telling him [[BlatantLies it was all a misunderstanding]], at which point he showers her with compliments. But even after this, he still criticises her as a traitor behind her back, despite he and everyone else knowing she was innocent, all out of fear of what might happen to himself if he doesn't.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Beria, the man who orchestrated the Great Terror and has the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on his hands, pushes through reforms to liberalise the Soviet state, put a stay on executions, and free low-level political prisoners. He does NOT do this out of the kindness of his heart and he is still murdering people left and right to secure his own position.
* ThePurge: Several are carried out throughout the movie and the film covers the tail end of Stalins final purge organised by Lavrentiy Beria, the subsequent purges carried out by Beria on his own as Stalin dies, [[spoiler: and the counter-purge against Beria and his cronies as Khrushchev and the others view for power themselves and try to survive becoming victims themselves]].
* ThePurge: Several are carried out throughout the movie and the film covers the tail end of Stalins final purge organised by Lavrentiy Beria, the subsequent purges carried out by Beria on his own as Stalin dies, [[spoiler: and the counter-purge against Beria and his cronies as Khrushchev and the others view for power themselves and try to survive becoming victims themselves]].
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: PlayedWith and {{Invoked}}, as people who are executed are either scapegoated or outright framed for crimes to justify their deaths. More or less {{Averted}} for the actual cast, since they are all portrayed fairly accurately as a nest of DirtyCoward vipers out to save their own necks and willing to kill even close friends and family for advancement, and if their worst crimes are glossed over it is only because they were OffstageVillainy committed before the events of the movie.
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* KangarooCourt: While nobody disputes the fact that [[spoiler: Beria]] has done any number of things that could justify killing him, the "court" that sentences him to death is little more than a lynch mob that bothered to write the charges down.
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* KangarooCourt: While nobody disputes the fact that [[spoiler: Beria]] has done any number of things that could justify killing executing him, the "court" that sentences him to death is little more than a lynch mob that bothered to write the charges down.
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* TheAlcoholic: Vasily is seldom seen sober, and can be relied upon to make any situation he's in worse.
* AssholeVictim: It's unlikely anyone will be feeling too sorry for [[spoiler: Beria]] when he loses the power games and is summarily executed.
* AssholeVictim: It's unlikely anyone will be feeling too sorry for [[spoiler: Beria]] when he loses the power games and is summarily executed.
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* BaldOfEvil: While none of the prominent characters are good people, Beria may be the most loathsome of the lot, and is completely bald.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the period will know that Khrushchev becomes the next leader of the Soviet Union.
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* TheFunInFuneral: Stalin's grand funeral includes political infighting, a clumsy attempt to move position at the coffin in order to question other people being ignominiously rebuffed, a failed photo op, a disagreement over who the hell invited the bishops, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and 1500 ordinary civilians killed when they tried to pay their respects]].
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* LargeHam: Zhukov prefers to dominate attention as much as is humanly possible. Vasily too.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The charges against [[spoiler: Beria]] which provide the pretext for killing him include considerable detail about this, presumably because this trope holds true even in Soviet Russia.
* TheScapegoat: It is debatable whether a single person in the NKVD prisons is actually guilty of anything.
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* {{Understatement}}: Beria says that Stalin is "feeling unwell," when he's clearly dead from a stroke.
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Creator/ArmandoIannucci.
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* ItsProbablyNothing: Stalin's guards at the door hear a thud. One of them asks if they should investigate, but the other says no before they both get killed.
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* ItsProbablyNothing: Stalin's guards at the door hear a thud. One of them asks if they should investigate, but the other says no before they both get killed. TruthInTelevision. Stalin left explicit orders not to disturb him during his sleep, which is why no one dared to check on him when he didn't get up at the usual time.
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The year is 1953 and the place is Russia. Josef Stalin has ruled with an iron fist for two decades. The people live in constant fear of his state apparatus. And then he dies. In the aftermath, various individuals must fight to secure his vacant seat.
seat. This includes:
* Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), Stalin's deputy.
* Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), Stalin's leading politician.
* Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), Stalin's head of internal security.
* Georgy Zhukov (Jason Isaacs), Stalin's most victorious general.
* Vasily Stalin (Rupert Friend), Stalin's son.
* Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), Stalin's deputy.
* Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), Stalin's leading politician.
* Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), Stalin's head of internal security.
* Georgy Zhukov (Jason Isaacs), Stalin's most victorious general.
* Vasily Stalin (Rupert Friend), Stalin's son.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Leadership is up for grabs.]]
->''"Stalin will be loving this."''
-->--'''Vyacheslav Molotov'''
''The Death of Stalin'' is a 2017 period comedy-drama directed by Armando Iannucci.
The year is 1953 and the place is Russia. Josef Stalin has ruled with an iron fist for two decades. The people live in constant fear of his state apparatus. And then he dies. In the aftermath, various individuals must fight to secure his vacant seat.
!!This film includes examples of:
* BaldOfAwesome: Nikita Kruschev.
* DirtyCommies: Lots of scheming and in-fighting by members of the Soviet Presidium.
* FourStarBadass: Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov,
-->"I took Germany. I think I can take a flesh lump in a waistcoat."
* ItsProbablyNothing: Stalin's guards at the door hear a thud. One of them asks if they should investigate, but the other says no before they both get killed.
* TheSpymaster: Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the NKVD.
[[caption-width-right:350:Leadership is up for grabs.]]
->''"Stalin will be loving this."''
-->--'''Vyacheslav Molotov'''
''The Death of Stalin'' is a 2017 period comedy-drama directed by Armando Iannucci.
The year is 1953 and the place is Russia. Josef Stalin has ruled with an iron fist for two decades. The people live in constant fear of his state apparatus. And then he dies. In the aftermath, various individuals must fight to secure his vacant seat.
!!This film includes examples of:
* BaldOfAwesome: Nikita Kruschev.
* DirtyCommies: Lots of scheming and in-fighting by members of the Soviet Presidium.
* FourStarBadass: Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov,
-->"I took Germany. I think I can take a flesh lump in a waistcoat."
* ItsProbablyNothing: Stalin's guards at the door hear a thud. One of them asks if they should investigate, but the other says no before they both get killed.
* TheSpymaster: Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the NKVD.
