Red Monarch
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Plot
Red Monarch is a black comedy based on The Red Monarch: Scenes from the Life of Stalin, a collection of short critical essays by the Russian dissident and former KGB agent Yuri Krotkov. The film depicts Soviet politics and the interplay between Stalin and his lieutenants, particularly Beria, during the last years of Stalin's rule. The reading of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's "The Heirs of Stalin" in the final scene supposedly warns that the threat of totalitarianism is constantly present.[2]
Box office
Goldcrest Films invested £553,000 in the film and earned £292,000 making them a loss of £261,000.[3]
Cast
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- Colin Blakely as Joseph Stalin
- David Suchet as Lavrentiy Beria
- Carroll Baker as Ellen Brown
- Ian Hogg as Boris Shaposhnikov
- David Threlfall as Vasily Stalin
- Nigel Stock as Vyacheslav Molotov
- Lee Montague as Lee
- David Kelly as Sergo Ordzhonikidze
- Glynn Edwards as Nikolai Vlasik
- Peter Woodthorpe as Georgy Malenkov
- Brian Glover as Nikita Khrushchev
- Oscar Quitak as Lev Mekhlis
- Wensley Pithey as Kliment Voroshilov
- George A. Cooper as Lazar Kaganovich
See also
References
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- Script error: No such module "If empty". at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:WikidataCheck
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- 1983 films
- 1983 black comedy films
- 1983 television films
- 1983 comedy-drama films
- British black comedy films
- Films directed by Jack Gold
- Films about Joseph Stalin
- Cultural depictions of Lavrentiy Beria
- 1980s English-language films
- 1980s British films
- British comedy-drama television films
- Films based on non-fiction books
- Totalitarianism in fiction
- English-language black comedy films