Is it possible to make a black comedy out of Stalin’s death? This is the task director Armando Iannucci has set himself in his new film covering the weeks after the dictator’s demise in 1953, and the struggle for power that followed. Adapted from the French graphic novel series by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin, The Death of Stalin is absurdist political drama against the backdrop of the very real threat of death.
