The Death of Stalin
“He’s dead, and the backstabbing has just begun”
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
Genres
Comedy, Drama, History
Studio
Gaumont
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Death of Stalin performed
Budget
$13.0M
Worldwide Gross
$24.6M
Gross Profit
$11.6M
Return
1.9× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Nikita Khrushchev
Steve Buscemi
Nikita Khrushchev
Lavrenti Beria
Simon Russell Beale
Lavrenti Beria
Georgy Malenkov
Jeffrey Tambor
Georgy Malenkov
Field Marshal Zhukov
Jason Isaacs
Field Marshal Zhukov
Vyacheslav Molotov
Michael Palin
Vyacheslav Molotov
Vasily Stalin
Rupert Friend
Vasily Stalin
Svetlana Stalin
Andrea Riseborough
Svetlana Stalin
Lazar Kaganovich
Dermot Crowley
Lazar Kaganovich
Anastas Mikoyan
Paul Whitehouse
Anastas Mikoyan
Nicolai Bulganin
Paul Chahidi
Nicolai Bulganin
Josef Stalin
Adrian McLoughlin
Josef Stalin
Andreyev
Paddy Considine
Andreyev
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